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He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it.
Paul-Maud'Dib DUNE

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is a blueprint for destroying capitalism.
Did she know she was advocating the destruction of that which she asserted as the highest economic ideal system?
NO!
This is a Zizekian case of the unknown/known

John Galt knew how to destroy the bureaucracy completely;
That is, he had the real control of it.
By THE STRIKE! The EXIT!

A can destroy B so A has the real control of B. A knows that they can destroy B. (known/known) B can destroy A so B has the real control of A. B does not know that they can destroy A. (unknown/known). C can destroy A so C has real control of A. C knows that they can destroy A. (known/known) C can destroy B so C has real control of B. C knows that they can destroy B (known/known).

How can C destroy B? By refusing to destroy A? Does C wish to destroy A? does C wish to destroy B? Or does C wish to liberate B? Gets dicey eh. A can physically destroy C. The poison pill is that if A does so, A is violating legal precedent. A violation of legal precedent is worse than just destroying C without violating legal precedent (the State) so punishment, imprisonment, death will be additional because the state will have been violated which is much worse than violating a person. This is part of the genealogy of crime and what is a crime.

This takes us into Foucault's Discipline and Punish. Crime was first defined as a "crime against the Sovereign." If someone stole your money, it was not a crime against you, but a crime against the King, the Sovereign. You lost your money but the crime was against the Sovereign so the punishment was severe.

Sometimes death for an insignificant crime

BECAUSE

it was a crime against the Sovereign!

A Genealogy of Crime

By the way this is how the Boston Marathon Bombing became a terrorist event. It became labeled as a crime against the state because the Boston Marathon is an annual event held in Boston. Twist that illogical thinking around in your reasoning will ya.

This thinking is an extension of Ratliff and Hartline's experimental work on Limulus.The eye of Limulus is composed of ommatidium each one separate from all the others but affecting others dependent upon how contingent they are to another. So ommatidium A can affect ommatidium B by suppressing the response of B. If within a certain distance measurable in the experiments. But C can suppress A thus lessening the strength of the stimulus from ommatidium A and therefore suppressing A's suppression of B. In which case B's response is enhanced.

This is called disinhibition.

Can we also liken it to disinformation. Or to distraction, thus lessening the strength / import of news, facts, occurrences, and other stimuli the Government wishes to weaken as it circulates among the citizens

And I can extend it to parental behavior that lessens the will of the child for good or bad. Or to the behavior of any one person in a dyad with another person which has been described as dependent or co-dependent behavior. Does one parent disinhibit the stimuli of the other parent thus increasing the responses of the child that exhibit the will of the child and the actualization of the child, or partner, or or or or........

DUNE: Proof That Continental Philosophy Is Dominant In Saying The MEANING of the TEXT is in the MIND of the READER.

REREAD DUNE

DUNE is a different book from the one you read long ago. completely different. Then it was prescient sci fi that we all loved. Now it is our world today and the one coming at us faster and faster..

The terrible truth is who were we when we missed it completely to go about living our lives blindly. The multitude of lives blindly lived that got us here when we were carefully told in a way we could understand, love and relate to. 

You will read it today and wonder who the hell you were when you read it before. Who was that person you called you? 

The words are still the same words on the printed page. But the MEANING is totally different. Is there any discussion now that the TEXT conveys the MEANING instead of Continental Philosophy saying that the 

MEANING RESIDES IN THE MIND OF THE READER.

Halleck murmured, “For they shall suck of the abundance of the seas and of the treasure hid in the sand.”

Appendix I

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. 

Pardot Kynes, first Planetologist of Arrakis

There is no escape _ we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

The Invisible Man - How Parrhesia Works through Art: The Elusive Role of the Imagination in Truth-Telling Foucault Studies, 2019 Marrigje Paijmans

How Parrhesia Works through Art: The Elusive Role of the Imagination in Truth-Telling

Foucault Studies, 2019

Marrigje Paijmans

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ..Krishnamurti

Creation takes place in choked passages" (G. Deleuze) which means for me there's no passage which is unchoked - hence, any creation for which "passage" is taken for granted (especially the one from 'noise to voice' (The Logic of Sense) cannot be creative at all.

I would say prison is a “choked passage.”

Laboratory of Nano-Fascism:  Although this relationship to death was once thought to belong originally to punk, expressed specifically in the funeral sculptures of Joy Division covers such as Closer and Love Will Tear Us Apart, and PIL’s Death Disco, it has been repurposed by Neanderthal capital in order to zombify the world.

Non Conceptual Negativity  Zafer Aracagök

Can we come back to Krishnamurti on this please. " It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." My personal feeling is that if you are not depressed, melancholy or bi polar or schizophrenic you are not paying attention.

This is interesting: “Owen Andree Um, no. The hysterics' *desire* is to continually and question/harangue the Master/authority's position.”

To see the Invisible Man may be to instantly recoil in fear, disgust, horror, side step, turn away from an image covered face to toes with dark prison tattoos. Not a human one wishes to link with.

A live human image that has disintegrated the boundaries, the limits of class, sex, age and race.

AND NON DECORATIVE

An image that is irreplaceable, non-reproducible, non-commodified, non exchangeable or accumulated. You cannot buy it, sell it, hoard it, own it, keep it, display it. A living image that can be destroyed physically, but alive forever in the imaginations of subjects who have allowed themselves to experience the Invisible Man. A digital image existing in Simulated Reality will be as useless as J. Hillis Miller tells you the reading of Heart of Darkness will be if you do not already know it from experience, and if you do you will not need to read it. The image recorded is not to experience the REAL. Only the experience of the real Invisible Man will challenge you with parrhesia, the truth of parrhesia that confronts you in your experience of him. Did it?

Without experiencing the confrontation of parrhesia inherent in his image your imagination cannot transform the work of art that he is, which precludes any change in your mode of being, your lived life, by your experience of him. An image of the human body aligned and defined in great classical beauty resonating with classical Greek sculpture inscribed, desecrated with ugly prison tattoos - some ironically funny and some cliches, but never aesthetic. And so the different levels of episteme through time from ancient Greece to the post modern NOW hit you between the eyes.

 Richard Hambleton- Jumping Shadow       Fight Club?

Foucault’s genealogical method reveals The Invisible Man’s fusion with other works of art signaling parrhesia and challenging us with confrontation and a demand for change, for transformation of ourselves to a different way of seeing, perceiving and being. Only OTHERNESS can accomplish this. Not different. OTHERNESS.

Velasquez: Las Meninas

Manet: Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe / Luncheon on the Grass

Picasso:Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Guernica

Warhol:Campbell Soup Cans

Jasper Johns:Flags and Destruction of Abstract Expressionism
Kathy Acker: everything
Herman Melville:Moby Dick:Ishmael and Queequeg
Leslie Fiedler:essays (football et al)
Leo Steinberg: art history and essays
Shakespeare: everything

Banksy: Performance Piece Dismaland;wall murals of political parrhesia

Ai WeiWei: Sculptures
Mark Tansey: everything

Marina Abramovic: Performance Art; The Artist Is Present

Luce Irigaray: Speculum of the Other Woman

Roberto Bolano: 2666

Eugene:The Invisible Man 

Herman Melville: Moby Dick: Ishmael and Queequeg (p. 535)

With a wild whimsiness, he now used his coffin for a seachest: and emptying into his canvas bag of clothes, set them in order there. Many spare hours he spent, in carving the lid  with all manner of grotesque figures and drawings; and it seemed that hereby he was striving, in his rude way, to copy  parts of the twisted tattooing on his body. And this tattooing, had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read though his own live heart beat against them;and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. And this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg - "Oh, devilish tantalization of the gods!"

IF YOU CANT BE A WORK OF ART, WEAR A WORK OF ART. - OSCAR WILDE

Genealogy of Body Tattoos - Tamati Waka Nene by Gottfried Lindauer (1839-1926), 1890, oil on canvas, 40”x33”, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand. 

Beautiful Face.

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.” - William Faulkner

In Robert Wilson's Opera
The Life and Times
Of Sigmund Freud,
I watched you run
Before you were born.
A Mercury of Time,
Now a running Apollo
Scribbled all over
By drunken Dionysians
With intentions of Parrhesia
You know nothing about.
Seeing you now confuses
The past which was
The future and this present
Mirroring the past.
Is there a tense somewhere
That they call
Future past or past future
Like the Intentional of the Hopi?
Because her car was laden
With Destiny that came
Crashing across my lifeline
Forcing me to live
In Alterity; waving at her
Drifting farther away,
Until I almost can't hear her sigh.

It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward.  Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable. CHILDREN OF DUNE  Leto II p. 278 *
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They aren’t all prison tattoos 

She screamed at me
On Facebook! 

This one and this one

Were done on the outside.

My brother did the cross

He tattooed over!

There are more prisons 

In this world, Horatio

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy
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The Aral Sea is the future. Since it exists in the present we fail to recognize that it is only
wearing the mask of the present. It is a Debordian spectacle concealing the REAL forming
the present from the future.A radical piece of the future detached and both visible and invisible.

Neil Burger's Divergent

opens with Lake Michigan mirroring the Aral Sea and surrounding areas, the future in the
fantasy movie image of a present Chicago