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WIKIPEDIA has shown the experiment in groupware and collective writing can work...  But can it work in a more speculative way?

Too many manifestos have been written ABOUT the people or FOR them, but not by them

Sorealism.com is pleased to present it's own WIKI SITE where you can make your own entries in our manifesto, amend what we or others have written

The SURREALIST MANIFESTO began like this: "Surrealism is not a new means or expression, or an easier one, nor even a metaphysic of poetry. It is a means of total liberation of the mind and of all that resembles it...


Can we do better?


A manifesto of the Soreal
Collective e-claration of 2006



1. Sorealism is speaking, seeing , thinking, dreaming, creating, feeling, smelling, hearing, embracing and laughing at your own truths and then sharing them with Someone - Anyone - Everyone.

2. SOREALISM is inspired by the simple act of thinking, combined with the impossibly complex act of thinking inside someone else's head.

3 What you think of as the surreal is not the surreal.  The surreal is the not-breath we take at the experience we so desperately try to have and not have. Create. Destroy.  Laugh. Cry.  All at once.  Now and it is gone.  But it never leaves. It is just forgotten like a hangover 10 years past. It informs us.  And we never drink Tequila shots again, for a while


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SoREALISM maintains that all the stuff you go through, waiting for things to happen, is what actually happens....

Sorealism is a form of realism You can't expect happiness. Joy sometimes. And then grief or uncertainty. But what you can achieve, as the years go by, is clarity - to be clear eyed, without illusions, about our lack of happiness

But Sorealism is also a  happy art form. .It's our illusions of what we should be, our expectations of happiness or success, that create so much unhappiness. We're always crucifying ourselves on the impossible stipulations of what we 'should be'.

But what we are, that we are, is - with clarity - more amazing in itself, more SOreal.

In clarity lies joy. That's SOREALISM




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NOW IS THE TIME; HERE IS THE PLACE



1. Sorealism is speaking, seeing , thinking, dreaming, creating, feeling, smelling, hearing, embracing and laughing at your own truths and then sharing them with Someone - Anyone - Everyone.

2. We the people hold these truths to be self evident: everywhere men and women are created free/breathe regularly/don't know what they want/can i go home now please?

3(Profiles of the Future) Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best (s)he is a celebrity (no fate, needles to sate).

6. "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." Oscar Wilde (The Soul of Man Under Socialism)

7. Or any of the above. Please delete. Please ad lib. Please say something fleet

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