The reason this site is called Intrepid Carpets is that in order to obtain a Geocities site, you first have to sign up for a Yahoo Identity. What I didn't realise is that that becomes the name of your Geocities site. I sort of like Intrepid Carpets - it's funny - I was getting bored with the original name of this site, which was propaganda - but I'm not sure if it is the right name for the site. The reason the original site was called Propaganda is because I am suspicious of the concept of neutal, objective information: usually those who push an image of being neutral and objective, like the BBC etc, have a hidden agenda - it is much better to be upfront and say that everything on this site reflects my passionately held views. So - reader beware - the views expressed on this site are mine and I might be wrong!
OK - This is the beginning of my site on global issues, and it will be under construction for some time to come. To begin with this site will mostly have articles on Anti-Psychiatry, as I have a lot that I want to put on, but it will gradually branch out into other areas.
or else go to:
Websites we like
Blog (journal)
Email: intrepidcarpets at yahoo dot co dot uk
This site subcribes to the primitivist school of web design - written in raw HTML - and not much of that. None of this Dreamweaver, Java, PHP frippery here - until I get around to learning how to use them. So I hope you like vast blocks of black and white text. The older dates are only approximations
Propaganda now has a blog All the incisive commentary about current events with which you associate Propaganda has now moved there.
Glamour, History and Violence (1987)
This is an old article that I've never finished
Anarchism and Marxism (1985)
Written ages ago - needs re-writing and re-thinking. Oh Well
Journey through Madness (2000)
What to do if a friend goes mad (1987)
A Biosocial Model of Mental Distress (2004)
This is a draft
article that I'm working on on and off - badly needs revision
Disordered Molecules and Diseased Minds
by Steven Rose
Projected articles: the South Africa Trip, the Sicily Trip, Looking for a Shaman, Working for Christian Aid, Working for South Bank Univeristy, Selling the Big Issue, Kilner House occupation, the Miners Strike, - well some time in the future - who can tell
How I became
homeless (2002)
a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since I wrote this
Some Reflections on still being homeless (2003)
In progress
Ted Moat, a Moral Fraud (2004)
Britain 2003 - A Fake Society (2003)
The social roots of New Labour
The Labour Party's war against the Poor(1994)
Written
some years before I became homeless
The first four book reviews below are of a number of books I have been struggling with for several years as background to creating a biological model of madness which is opposed to biopsychiatry and underpins the ideas of antipsychiatry developed by R.D. Laing and David Cooper. The reviews have been written as much to help me with the process of grasping and relating the ideas in them as for anyone else. As such they are incomplete and an ongoing process
Arthur Koestler (2003)
A short biography of the writer Arthur Koestler
The Ghost in the Machine (2003)
by Arthur Koestler
The Web of Life (2006)
by Fritjof Capra
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintainance (2004)
by Robert Pirsig
In lieu of a review of Lifelines by Steven Rose (because I still haven't totally got my head around it - here are a couple of thought-provoking quotes from Chapter Two, Observing and Intervening
Just a theory (2008)
by Moti Ben Ari
This has absolutely nothing to do with antipsychiatry
The Revenge of Gaia (2007)
by James Lovelock
