This is my second interview in the Cicada Files : the first was with Arturo Tafoyovsky Lestat , chief videographer during a part of the Middle Period , published earlier on this site, August 15, Chavez was also an inner circle member of Cicada late in its Middle Period , and he was personally responsible for its implosion on May 7, I am exercising due care in the transcription of his interview and my commentary upon it, and I will release it in installments in coming weeks. These preceding interviews with Tafoyovsky and gHOST are necessary preliminaries to the Chavez interview, providing crucial context.
Interviews with further Cicada insiders will give us unprecedented insight into this most enigmatic phenomenon of the internet age. We discuss the prospects for a reemergence of Cicada on January 5, I first asked Thomas Schoenberger for an interview on April 16, He ignored me, then he blocked me on Twitter, and he directed his co-conspirators to do likewise. I was subsequently blocked by DJ Genki and qntmpkts , despite an absence of prior interaction between us, and by several Schoenberger sock accounts.
I later reiterated my invitation to Schoenberger in the interest of fairness and completeness. He continued ignoring me until I published my interview with Tafoyovsky: then he complained that I did not ask him for a review before publication.
His critics and a large tranche of internal Cicada documents in my possession evocatively speak for him. We contemplate Liber Primus , core text of Cicada , which remains mostly unsolved. We touch upon clues for solvers, and agree to galvanize the solving community. We restore focus to the cypherpunk ideals that germinated Cicada Those who are interested in Cicada and the perplexing puzzles that it created will find this interview interesting.
For the political scientists in my audience, this is an analysis of organization, functions and goals of Cicada I detail how Cicada was organized, how its organization changed over time, how it functioned, and how it sought to achieve its goals. For social scientists, this is a glimpse into a digital secret society, a cypherpunk order whose lifespan is not yet complete.
