Or, @EvBogue Saves His Blog to /dev/null

Yesterday, everyone’s favourite messianic, augmented-minimalist-cybernetic-superhuman-yogi Everett Bogue took down his seminal blog Far Beyond the Stars.

Quoth he of this momentous step:

When I wrote The Art of Being Minimalist, the world needed instructions. It needed someone to tell the world, point blank: here’s what happens when you throw out all of your stuff. […]

However, then one day I realized that I wasn’t a minimalist at all. I was an augmented human, I had been from the start.

Some might say that stuffing one’s blog down the memory hole whilst simultaneously hawking a new book and a $25-a-month subscription-only email bulletin is cynical. But those nay-sayers obviously don’t understand the inherent bravery and selflessness of the act. He’s doing it for you, to help you develop your “second self”, that vaguely creepy, ominpresent cyberghost that somehow takes care of you. (To find out how, exactly, this disembodied presence “takes care of you”, you’ll need to fork over the cash for his book and/or Letter.ly.)

Yet, even in the face of this bravery, the world needs the teachings of the man whose now-discarded minimalism “started a revolution, the momentum of which for the last year has rocked the space/time continuum”.

With this in mind, I present for your own archives the complete Far Beyond the Stars, unabridged and suitable for local browsing and/or web mirroring¹:

• Click here to download the site (5 MB ZIP file).

Download, unzip, and be enlightened. But most of all: don’t forget to subscribe to Bogue’s Letter.ly and buy his new book.

No, really, do. This augmented messiah needs — nay, deserves — your hard-earned money.

Further Reading

• Everett Bogue’s narcissistic autointerview about augmented humanity;
• The excellent Far Beyond My Ego;
• Bogue’s new, equally incoherent blog.