Hyperstition Gives Me/War Nerd a Shout-Out

My blogo-heroes at Hyperstition gave me phat shout-out today by linking
to "Make War, Not Love" post a week back, peep it here:
http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/005708.html

What is Hyperstition? Take one part "hype" and one part "superstition",
mix, boil, and simmer for 20 minutes. In other words: Hyperstition
(from what I can tell) is the study of how fictions become reality once
adopted by a mass of people. In this manner, and with the help of
modern telecomm, one can literally "write" fictions into reality, as
magickal a process as any.

I've been fascinated by this idea since last fall when I conceived of
an idea of a fake newspaper (think The Onion) which would run fake
stories as SPELLS to conjure desired situations in manifest reality.
Basically, set an intention, and hope/pray/believe/sustain it will one
day, someday come true. It's almost like once an idea becomes possible
in the mental realm as "fantasy", this lowers the bar significantly for
it to become possible in the gross realm as "reality".

I'd encourage all readers of this blog to try this for themselves (I
just did it now in fact: I'm telling myself the lie that I actually
have readers!): write yourself a story putting yourself into some
imaginary future situation of your choosing, then take whatever small
practical steps you can to move yourself in the direction of this
desired situation (i.e. if you want to do Jager shots with Ashton
Kucher, first hitch a Greyhound to Hollywood).

Report all results in the comments, thanks!