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Chris Locke pulls a quote from Paul Feyerabend's Against Method (anarchistic theory of knowledge/science): However Anarchism, as it has been practised in the past and as it is being practised today by an ever increasing number of people has features I am not prepared to support. It cares little for human lives and human Happiness (except for the lives and the happiness of those who belong to some special Core Group); and it contains precisely the kind of Puritanical dedication and seriousness which I detest... It is for these reasons that I now prefer to use the term Dadaism... A DadaIst (DaDa) is convinced that a worthwhile life will arise only when we start taking things lightly and when we remove from our speech the profound but already putrid meanings it has accumulated over the centuries...