WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SADO-MASOCHISM!
(to all that feel they are citizens of the world)
project
Explosions, murders, assaults, floods and wars. Twinkling blue light is chasing the blood out of a staring face. A dark room. The world is invading through the TV screen. Thermo-electronic emission. A ghost of a man is holding a distance controller and switching it from channel to channel. Chaos of faces, sounds, tits, gunshots, smiling teeth, stock indexes, massage appliances, polished cars, run over bodies, army planes darting in the air, Palestine people on demonstration. A female speaker is drivelling on MTV. Some guy on CNN is imagining he is very persuasive. Another is fucking. His groans, her moaning. Jean-Claude Van Damme is going out of some critical situation, Again. Hotel pictures tease me to spend my holiday there and have a great fun.
It is dark and quiet on the street outside. Shadows of stray dogs. Yellow street lights senselessly twinkling. Downing. Gunshots somewhere near. Street lights keep ticking. No dogs now.
A room. Lit up. I read: Confusing the meduim and the message is equivalent to confusing the sender and the receiver. It further supports the notion about the dying out of all dual polarised structures in the discourse organisation of language, related to the popular system of functions ( described by Jacobson) and the structure of the precise articulation of meaning. the circle discourse should be taken literally - its movement is not limited within two points, it rather follows a circle (the positions of sender/receiver included but not differentiated). Consequently it is not possible to transcend these positions, there is no distinct manifestation of power, neither there is an institution to bridge the gap: power is everywhere and its source is undefinable: it is a circle in which the positions of the ruler and the ruled take their endless turns; this is the end of the power in the classical sense of the word. The circle nature of power, the knowledge and the discourse put an end to distinct manifestations and oppositions. Even with the psychoanalyst power does not come from outside but out of the object of analysis. That makes a world of difference because we are always free to ask the rulers who has empowered them. Who made you a herzog? The King. And who made the King? God did. God only will not provide an answer. But the psychoanalyst will answer this question (Who made the psychoanalyst?) at once: You did. In this way the reversed simulation comes as an expression of the transition from ‘the subject of analysis’ to the ‘analyst’, from ‘active’ to ‘passive’ and the rotation of oppositions may be easily grasped, the circularity in which power is being lost, dispersed, transformed into manipulation ......
September 25th, 1995, breakfast time. News going on the radio. A teenager shot 13 people in France. In France! Sunny France. Shining, kind and happy Frenchmen, driving Citroens, smiling and talking in French. Everything is fine, much too fine. Somebody is getting sick of being nobody. In case he commit a suicide, well it was his own problem. In case he commit murder - now this is a social problem. Problems with uncontrollable murders are social. Power controls and control is power.
Back to my reading now. Telephone boxes explosion in France. Islamic groups not suspected. I don’t care about the boxes, I even don’t care about the motives. The fact is someone has run off the rails. Depressions, psychoses, suicides. Now what? To cry out running along the streets, it won’t do, you will disturb the public peace, moreover, the other may think you are crazy. Brains exploding gently, nobody takes notice.
November 1994. Walking the streets of glossy Wien - a leader in the list of highest standards of living. Clean and tidy. Leading the top list of suicides. I am walking in the dusk. Holiday moods, lights, adverts, scent of baked sweets. Christmas is coming.
Thursday, September 14th. Jerry Adams, the ‘Sean Feign’ leader said IRA would not start disarmament. Tomorrow is the beginning of the new school year.
Bill Clinton kisses a 94 year old lady on her birthday at the Home for Senile People in Denver. Next time I will vote for you, Bill.
From now on it would be impossible to ask the well known question: What are your grounds to speak in this manner? How do you know? Who has entitled you to the powers you have? without having the answer at once: But it was on your behalf that I spoke! An enormous turn, a twist of meaning, inexorable blackmail of the subject who is supposed to say whatever he chooses to, but who is deprived of the chance to say a word because the answer to all questions is unavoidable: you are the answer, your question is your answer; the sophisticated trap around every single word, the forced confession disguised as a verbiage, the subject speaking in the trap of his own questions, the answer preceding the question (the violated freedom of interpretation the violating conscious or unconscious control of speech)....
I can hardly explain my desire to shoot....
This simulacrum of the rotation of oppositions, this exquisite strategy, in fact the hidden essence of the discourse of manipulation (and of new forces coming out in any field), deprive power of its range of action and define the notion about the world as a coherent whole, which results in its turn in the improbable muteness of majority today, - all this has its origins in the political sphere and the simulacrum of democracy: where God is replaced by the will of the people and the power is transformed from emanation into representation. This is the anti-Copernican revolution: transcendence no longer exists and neither the sun nor any other source of light may be also a source of knowledge and power; everything comes out of the people and goes back to it. This amazing rotation gives birth to the universal simulacrum of manipulation (from the concept about universal suffrage rights to the modern ballot boxes)....
Kalashnikov 7.62 mm, The New Social Order
MAKE WAR NOT LOVE
Project
Welcome to the world of Sado-masochism
(to all that feel they are citizens of the world)
S/M World
- the pleasure to kill, the chance to be killed. - the reason to kill, the reason to be killed. National interests - the interests of a dominant group are in most of the cases presented as national. War as State policy. - the need to kill, the need to be killed. The goal being a perfect manifestation of domination. - Jihad: sacrifice as essential moral value. - the need for victims, for exhortations and for paragons to follow. Catholicism - the exaltation of passions. Painfulness - what a sight! terrorism, an indispensable social corrective. Profound and drastic rejection of social regulations, norm and rules. Acceptable, desirable, necessary. Terrorism, as an act of ignoring the publicly acknowledged human rights and freedoms, lends power to the political system (or to particular elements of the system) it opposed and fought.
The goal has always been to assert the real through the imaginary, the truth through the scandal, the law through its violation, labour through the strike, the system through the crisis, the capital through the revolution...
Everything finds its opposite through the metamorphosis, in order to attain its pure essence. Any kind of power and any situation define themselves through their negations and simulating death they try to escape from true agony...
The only alternative to any kind of power/institution/, trying to come out of the viscious circle of its own responsibility and fundamental lack of existence, of its deja-vu and deja-mort is to find new strength in its death, to renew the circle through reflecting itself into crisis, negation and anti-power.
MAKE WAR NOT LOVE: The Metamorphoses of Love
overbearing love - love power - the love of power
Bankruptcy of humanism, human rights, equality in rights, tolerance, democracy, liberalism, peace, freedom, proclaimed and acknowledged in public. By the right of the strong the dominating system of values has been forcibly ‘acknowledged’ in public. The rules of the game change with the needs of the ruler. Rules should be adopted on a voluntary basis and easily and consequently whatever is necessary is being done to impose the respective moral imperatives and categories (at a certain level they turn into aesthetic concepts).
The capital doesn’t care about the notion of social contract, it is a monstrous venture, based on no principles, there’s nothing more to it. It is rather the enlightened thought that is striving to impose principles on the capital and in this way to control it. In this way all the accusation that replaced revolutionary attitudes may be reduced to admonishing the capital for not keeping to the rules of the game. “power means injustice, its injustices lies in the injustice of power that exploits us...’ as if the capital has signed a contract with society for management. The left-oriented parties raised slogans for equality in the hope that the capital may take fancy at the notion of the social contract and fulfil its responsibilities towards society as a whole (at the same time revolution is not necessary, it will be fairly enough to make the capital accept the rational formula of exchange)
MAKE WAR NOT LOVE barbarism is universal. I intended to provide examples under this item from our latest history. Examples of interests that have taken the shape of military interventions, their prehistory, grounds and consequences. Many justifications may be found, if necessary. Bombing in the name of humanism is a almost common phenomenon. I feel like mentioning China, the human rights and THE MOST FAVOURED NATION TREATMENT in the trade with USA....economic interests come first, they may turn out to be strategic, in addition.
Improbable headline glitters in the intercerebral spaces: THE PROPAGANDA OF HUMANISM IS FORBIDDEN, WHATEVER FORM IT MAY TAKE - IT IS DEFORMED!
MAKE WAR NOT LOVE - one of the best ways to fight AIDS.
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