SpydarCache Manifesto

I’m going to geocache as I see fit..this is not an activity that is owned,patented or controlled by any network,entity,government agency or group of nationalists. I’m not going to worry much about how my activities effect the caching community or other cachers..Its our natural given right to “effect” the community. Every human activity has people who want to control and capitalize from it eventually, I generally don’t like that. I’m going to place meaningful caches in safe places as far away as I can from anything or anyone that makes me feel the need to ask for permission. The fewer “muggles” I have to involve the better. Still its just not realistic to expect an unconventional activity to not have some controversy among spectators and enthuseists alike..I don’t think thats a good excuse to make it become “conventional”. I’m going to make some of my caches complicated and inconvenient to just log and go. I may even use them as ways to advertise my cyberspace,business,ideologies or religion (within reason), whatever. I’m going to expect my caches to get hated and vandalized. I’m going to place some of them far away from where I live because not only is it no ones business where I live, but I may not expect to ever maintain them myself. Instead I might monitor the logs telling me how far they are downgrading over time..like some kind of horrible time-lapse social experiment, Sometimes I’m going to design the cache so that the cachiers themselves might have to upgrade or maintain them. Whatever I feel is relative at the time.. If there is a cache less than .01 from where I want mine to go, then I’ll place it anyway and advertise it myself since the gestapo at geocaching.com forces the issue. If I get it in my head that some “volunteer” has vandalized my cache out of socialist spite I’m going to leave instructions to my cachiers to vandalize or destroy theirs. Don’t think this can’t turn south as any other human activity has..it almost certainly will. This thing reminds me of the old days of graffiti culture..I’m saying all of this to show that the more people get involved the more dangerous it could become and the more officials get involved the more regulated it will become and the more geocaching without bureaucracy will be made to be a crime..its kind of inevitable really..my advice: Enjoy it while it lasts, find the happy medium between secrecy and safety..think of it as a sport and sub-culture and not something owned by any particular website or set of reviewers..support and respect the caches you like, give feedback to the caches you think should take some things into consideration..and as always report anything suspicious to the proper authorities..while trying not to blame the sport in the process... -Anarcache's one and only post at Cachemania.com on April 26th, 2014 (still "awaiting moderation" as of May 5th, 2014) in reply to the article "When Geocaching Goes Wrong" ..and thus the guerrilla cache movement: SpydarCache Network was born. MOM has adopted the heavy but intriguing burden of chronicling the SpydarCache Network's progress and Manifesto, so Check back for any updates and any expansion of the SpydarCache section of our blog! Feel free to comment but as always no flaming,spamming or trolling! Comments and posts may be syndicated with other MOM partner networks/blogs, by posting here you agree to share your words across the network and worldwide web!