In what was once RAF Bortsworth airbase sits the sprawling yet compact Museum of Right-Wing Gadgets. The site includes at least one massive aeroplane but also the nebulous concept of "EMAIL" (all caps). Visitors can sit in the (not right-wing) orgone box or gaze at the surprisingly dodgy transistor.
The museum is lavishly funded by sales of free-energy devices and flamethrowers and the curators have been busy acquiring new exhibits.
Here are a reminder of the rules but note that the curators happily break these rules all the time based on general vibes.
- There needs to be an invented THING. It can't just be an idea or a way of behaving nor can it be something that was promised but never made. There should, at minimum, be a prototype. The prototype doesn't need to work though…
- It should be a reasonable size that you could have in the home (in principle, but it might not be a wise idea to have one in your home…)
- It should be a solid thing, not say a liquid or a virus etc.
- There should be a particular individual directly connected with the thing who is of clearly right-wing ideology of one kind or another. It might not be the inventor as such but the person should be directly connected with the thing coming into being.
- It should ideally exemplify some sort of messed up quality of the right. THERE WILL BE A MORAL to these stories of the creative urge used for evil.
- I'm going to limit to no more than one example of a. Nazi superweapons/weird stuff and b. perpetual motion devices.
- I reserve the right to play a JOKER
on each of these criteria to make up the numbers.
I've a set of new exhibits to tell you about but suggestions are always welcome.
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