T E X T F I L E S

Anarchy and Explosives and General Mayhem

The term Anarchy got bandied about a lot in the early 80's, perhaps having some amount of political or social meaning attached at the outset, but by the first couple of years, it simply became a synonym for "blow shit up". Writers outdid themselves trying to imagine ways to create chaos and panic out of whatever household items they had available. How much of this destruction actually went on and how much was simply writing out angry missives about destruction, is unknown.

I wrote an essay about the meaning of the term "Anarchy" and how these files relate to that and the world at large.

http://www.textfiles.com/thoughts/anarchy.html

The entirely stupid direction this country has taken regarding personal

responsibility, freedom of expression and good ol' self-preservation

necessitates the following paragraph:

Before you waste one entire second even considering mixing, creating, or otherwise implementing the instructions in these files, be aware that people have died from some of these very texts, attempting wholescale explosives and dangerous chemical reactions based on some flimsy text file written by god knows who for god knows what. It's just way too easy</U> for someone to have typed a 5 instead of a 4 years and years ago when they were copying out of a badly photocopied pamphlet written by someone entirely different. Your life is too precious to take such an idiotic risk. If you're going to blow things (and yourself) up, at least go the route of learning with experts, where you'll become aware of risks and fun far beyond soaking tennis balls in gasoline and lighting them. OK?!

That aside, the justifications in some of the files are amazing, and a nice insight into the writer's mind.

CARDING

On Committing Credit Card Fraud

FDR

The FDR Anarchy File Collection

FREELOADING

Getting Something for Nothing

INCENDIARIES

Files With Instructions on Blowing Things Up

JOLLYROGER

Jolly Roger's Cookbook: Someone's Collection of Files

LOCKPICKING

Files About Getting Through Locks

MISCHIEF

Files About Making Life a Little More Messy

PAIN

Files about Hurting and Being Hurt

SCAMS

Files About Getting Something For Nothing

WEAPONS

Files About Creating Weapons

T E X T F I L E S

Anarchy and Explosives and General Mayhem

CARDING

FDR

FREELOADING

INCENDIARIES

JOLLYROGER

LOCKPICKING

MISCHIEF

PAIN

SCAMS

WEAPONS

001.txt

176.txt

201.txt

202.txt

203.txt

206.txt

214.txt

aa.txt

ac.ana

acbfile.txt

address.ana

alarm.fun

alko170.txt

anarc25.txt

anarchist.txt

anarchy.txt

anarchy3

anarcy1.txt

anarcy1b.txt

anarcy2.txt

anarcy4.txt

anarkunc.txt

anarky.txt

anti.modem.weap

aoa4.txt

aofa-1.txt

aofa-2.txt

aofa-3.txt

aofa-4.txt

assassination.txt

at.txt

atmosph.ere

badmind1.txt

badmind2.txt

badmind3.txt

badmind4.txt

badmind5.txt

badmind6.txt

badmind7.txt

balloon.txt

bank

bankomat.txt

beaspy.ana

beat.the.scan.t

bibfraud.txt

bigsecr1.txt

bigsecr2.txt

books

break.in.car

bridged.txt

build_an_h_bomb.txt

catlogs.txt

change.machine

chekgame.txt

chemical.txt

ciaman.txt

civilian.war

commando.1

commando.2

cookbook.iv

courier.txt

crack.gif

crack.upc

curing.boredom

departmentt.sto

depth.charge.fi

dingdong.txt

dmv.txt