El Paso Shooting Deconstructed

The El Paso shooting is being treated as a case of 'domestic terrorism,' US attorney says

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Saturday August 3, 2019 is the date of the El Paso Shooting.

So we have another mass shooting described as terrorism to instill more fear into the American people. It makes us easier to control folks.

A young boy from Allen TX was apprehended at Walmart, the scene of the shooting. 

Allen is one of those rural areas outside of Dallas that has in the past 20 years or so been covered with development tract houses to take advantage of low interest rates. It is known for its exceptional state of the art football stadium.

A BLAND PLACE

MY FRIEND IN DALLAS TOLD ME

His online Manifesto blames both political parties and is a rather common political assessment of the US political environment which online contributors and commenters are familiar with. So nothing very new about his thinking.

McLuhan has alerted us to the finest analysis of the media anyone has ever been able to instruct us to learn.

THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE

THE CONTENT IS IRRELEVANT

THE MESSAGE IS GROUND

THE CONTENT IS THE FOCUS OF PERCEPTION unfortunately

Serial terroristic murders have become common these days. Each one is proclaimed by the media as an EVENT but so far they have not been seen in any total perception - that's what MESSAGE is - that would make them appear normal - they are getting normal however - or as any institutionalized protest or guerrilla action against a government perceived as antagonistic to individuals and currying favor with corporation. Our government is avoiding this as it is bad PR.

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS? WHAT IS THE MESSAGE OF THIS?

A young boy comes from one of those new BLAND areas of new slipshod track development housing thrown up for profit by developers. The rural area has been devoured. The animals must move to find habitat they can continue to survive in. That habitat is shrinking as we type or read this. Those animals are becoming ever more stressed. But what of the people who lived there for all their lives in rural peace that are also getting marginalized. Surely there are many and their children and grandchildren are becoming fraught with anxiety that will be treated with medication if too severe. These are the consequences of the destruction of a local rural area  that gets newly developed for monetary gain by a corporation. One can better understand this young man if one knows this. He lives among those who are affected.

If you are a gamer, know a gamer, or even know some things about gaming there is something else to consider. ALL gamers are aware of these mass shootings as they participate in them online in VIRTUAL REALITY. 

In Virtual Reality you cannot get out of the game unless you unplug your computer. It feels like one of those malware fixer uppers that flashes across your screen telling you to send in money for them to fix it. You cant turn them off and you are desperate. That's how they have stolen millions from people. Gamers know about this sort of thing too.

ALL terrorism is noticed by gamers. Each incident incites them. It is occurring in REAL life but the incident is also like any inclusion in a Virtual Reality game. So there is this immersion in Simulated Reality and in Real Reality (if there is such a thing).

Consider Cronenberg's film CRASH from Ballard's novel.

People are setting up a counterfeit REAL crash to copy a real celebrity crash. Think James Dean's crash that killed him or another celebrity that was maimed: Steve Reeves from being thrown by a horse that he was showing in the Madison Square Garden Horse Show. 

These planned accidents result in the maiming of the participants and sometimes their own deaths. They are SIMULATIONS of the REAL!

The mass shootings are of a similar ilk. CNN described the El Paso Shooting as the largest death and injury total committed by one serial killer that has ever happened in the US.

CNN HAS RAISED THE BAR. THE LIMIT THAT MUST NOW BE BREACHED. 

THANKS CNN!

Do you even get that?

Regressing to the Twilight fandom that was unable to distinguish between the real life romance of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson from the novel and movie romance of the vampire falling in love with the human girl played by Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart was what fueled this mass hysteria fandom of women waiting days for a glimpse of RobertPattinson

and dropping billions into the corporation of Summit Productions making them solvent and a player in Hollywood instead of the bankruptcy they were tottering toward.

But it is this inability to separate Simulated Reality from Real Reality that is so disturbing. 

Another example occurred in the book and movie DIVERGENT. 

Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort are brother and sister in this movie.

Shailene Woodley  was cast for the lead feminine part in The Fault In Our Stars. Ansel Elgort was auditioning for the part of her boyfriend in that movie. Shailene has said she told him he probably wouldn't get it because they were brother and sister in Divergent and issues of INCEST would come up. And WOW did they ever when Elgort got the part. What a furor these young women created.

You see they couldn't tell the difference between Simulated Reality - the movie - and Simulated Reality in another movie, let alone the real life of these two actors that just know each other as friends.

Now that is what is really frightening that none of the fake news journalists ever picked up.

I am being excessive on these examples because of these shootings which can be perceived in the same thought pattern of a distressing inability to see the difference between Simulated Reality and Real Life. 

So now the next shooter will have to scale the bar that CNN just informed them about. CNN you and all the others are RESPONSIBLE for what you say and write. You have put this in the heads of untold gamers ALL OVER THE WORLD. They do not know each other but they feel tribal, in solidarity with each other.

And this is what makes governments impotent, helpless to stop them. Banning guns will now not solve the problem. Too little and too late now.

And what better statement can be made now than to turn WALMART into a danger zone. We can walk in there with a cart from outside, put something in it, throw our coat over that, and go in to shop. Or not to shop. The consequences of this shooting will be to turn WALMART into a surveillance center like nothing we have yet seen. 

Surveillance has been to prevent stealing. Now surveillance will be a whole new ball of wax.

All those Texans that must have their guns, can anyone tell me why they weren't carrying yesterday? and if they were, why didn't they..................? 

And people filming it?

And no one organizing some to just go get him and risk whatever they had to risk doing it. The way the passengers on that Pennsylvania plane did on 9-11?

We watch violent sports but when it comes to the violence in our daily lives we try to save our hides by hiding and getting out ourselves. That is what non patriotism really means.

There is no patriotism to simply STOP the violent murderer.

And these people know Americans are SHEEP who will baaaa and run and hide.

These gamers do not know each other, and yet they know they are a tribe.

ALL OVER THE WORLD

They are the ones who may or may not know the difference between Simulated Reality and the Real World of Walmart.

Now maybe this young man shooter can and maybe he cant. IDK

Many men prefer plastic boobs (Simulated Reality) from real ones that do not look so perfect.

And those who rely on GPS know not the territory. The Map is the Territory.

What I do know is that more gamers are out there watching being stimulated by what he did. Dreaming perhaps of what he did. And what they might do as they do know that the US government has lied to us for generations and pretended to take us into consideration but are now obviously being seen as wearing MASKS to obscure the SPECTACLE concealing the REAL that is full of EMPTINESS. 

There is no more American Dream for them. That IDEOLOGY has been shredded and thrown under the bus.

But there is no replacement. And any addict knows that to get clean they MUST replace their dangerous addiction with a healthy addiction. If you want to argue about that read INFINITE JEST  

first, then argue with me.

Vanity Fair Interview:Rob Pattinson 3-11

Most Rob fans don't like this interview but don't seem to know exactly why except for the fact that many redundant questions are asked.


Foucauldian thought looks at it from a different POV. In Foucault's 1974-75 Abnormal Lectures at the College de France he goes into great detail about the genealogy of confession beginning with the Inquisition. In Western Civilization the Roman Catholic Church began persecuting heretics in the 12th century continuing until the early 19th century.


Confession was afterward initiated to probe the minds of members of the church by their village priests and began to be incorporated into the hierarchy. Eventually confession landed on the psychoanalyst's couch where it continues today. The practice is widespread and completely accepted in our modern times. Confession is the accepted prevailing Discourse for the interview. The confession is to be extracted from the interviewed object by the interviewer subject. Extracted confession is the important term to be understood.


"...when I join the nosy chorus asking if his on screen love mirrors his relationship in real life," Pattinson says laughing, Are you asking me if I'm really a vampire?

"As I wait for an answer, Pattinson literally starts squirming, Yes. Um. No, not really, he says, It's pretty hard to...It's just very traumatic, he says cryptically."

The interviewer is asking whether he is fucking Kristen Stewart. Confession was initiated to probe sexuality to root out the heresies of Catharism and along with analysis sex continues to be of prime interest in interviews and on the couch. Vanity Fair's interviewer is extracting the confession, a Discourse that began in the 12th century. The interviewer is also torturing Pattinson as she waits for an answer while he squirms.


It is clear that she has made him uncomfortable and has no intention of doing otherwise.


Going back to his first response, Are you asking me if I'm really a vampire? he is expressing his feelings unconsciously. Switching from a Foucault reading to Lacan we can invert his sentence: I am asking you if you are really a vampire. Yes, Rob, you are telling the interviewer she is a vampire and the interviewer really is a vampire. That is exactly what you are saying. To extract a confession you must be pierced, crushed sometimes, and the confession pulled out, extracted, from the unwilling but complicit object that is being tortured, however politely and according to custom. An analyst trained in Lacanian listening will hear what he is saying. (Remember Bush 1 and his astonishment at the bar-code? Bar being the name his wife is known by. Read Diane Rubenstein for a long discussion on this.) But Rob is squirming because he has not heard what he really said and so instead of sitting calmly he is squirming.


And the bitch doesn't stop. "I mean, are you very intense about each other?" Oh, I don't know, "he says finally." She's really cool. Even before I knew her I thought she was a really good actress. Like, I saw Into the Wild, and I thought she was really good in that. ....And then he goes on to say that when all this is over things can go back to some sort of normality.


Baudrillard has interesting things to say about the interview situation, especially since he has given many of them. Essentially he says that what he has said about the hostage situation applies to the interview. The interviewer and the interviewee are in complicity.


Rob is complicit in this interview. He is allowing himself to be tortured. When asked the same kind of question by her recent Vogue interviewer, Kristen replied, That's not my job. She didn't squirm, she responded assertively, a tad aggressively in fact, as the interviewer had no right to be trying to extract a sexual confession out of her. Kristen is not complicit, so with her the hostage analogy does not apply in quite the same way.


Ramping up confession and torture please turn to my review of Inglourious Basterds Part 6 posted down on this blog. It's from the very first scene of IB, another masterpiece by Tarantino. An excerpt:


But back to the first scene of IB. Landa knows and he could just simply have his officers rape the farmer's daughters, torture them in front of him until he tells, shoot them all, whatever. But no, he sits down to drink a glass of fresh milk, chat a little over tobacco, and squeeze more fear into his victim. Because the farmer knows he knows but hopes he doesn't. His careful performance is perfection. His eyes get stony with protective cover. He sweats and Christoph Waltz watches with pleasure and he tightens his hold. They speak English, so the Jews underneath won't understand. He reaches a climax where he tells him ever so charmingly that he will take his family in for interrogation or he can just indicate with a nod where they are hiding. The French peasant is known for his astuteness, and this one needs no prodding. He knows what will happen to his young and beautiful daughters. He knows the Jews down below are doomed anyway. Now he is being asked to become a collaborator, to sully his soul, to do such a despicable act that he will forever torture himself afterward. (Think Sophie's Choice.) Now this is violence. He is asking him to be Judas. His reward is not 30 pieces of silver, but the safety of his daughters. He can berate himself the rest of his life by weighing the two alternatives and BTW Corrie Ten Boom had Jews hidden in her house walls and wouldn't tell and she and her family and all the Jews went to a camp. But that's another story.


So this nice polite well thought of interviewer for Vanity Fair is really in collusion with her more violent comrades in arms. She has performed an evil act. It is transparent and condoned and accepted by all and sundry. It is even published and paid for.

Archetypes of Beauty:Rob Pattinson, Hedy Lamarr, Greta Garbo

Rob Pattinson in Car in Rio

I think that beauty offers two categories:the beautiful and the archetype. The archetype is Other, otherworldly, timeless, somehow austere and pure, androgynous. Beauty obeys fashion and fashion for faces changes with the time and era. Liz Taylor just misses being in the archetype category but only in my opinion. Ava Gardner? Very close. James Dean appears to just miss if you look at him next to Pattinson. This classic and timeless face is rare.


All three are recognizable I think. Garbo stopped going out as she aged because she was so disturbed when people were so disturbed by her aging. Hedy Lamarr lived her last 40 years worrying about her rent. Lamarr invented the concept of frequency change for coding messages in World War II. It is what allows wireless and cell phones today but she never made a dime from it. Sontag considers Garbo's face vacant and we all know what zillions have said about Pattinson.

For more about Hedy Lamarr that will surprise you:
http://tinyurl.com/6jc6k4h "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." - Hedy Lamarr

Lamarr is right if you read this remark through Baudrillard. An image stripped of all meaning, all cultural baggage is only pure appearance. The enigmatic object looks at the camera lens as the lens looks at it. The object does not pose, provide meaning, the object simply is there. Few faces are able to do this. Hedy is saying she is not there. Her intelligence, her self, her feelings, her thoughts, her anything just disappears. She is not there. She is just standing there like any object:stupid. A tree is stupid as is a rock as is the sky.

Edward is standing there stupid then. Only his face, his vampire face, looking at you with The Gaze.

Deleted Ending for Vanity Fair Film with Reese Witherspoon DVD

Garbo was so perfectly beautiful. More beautiful than beautiful; therefore,hyperbeautiful. Is hyperbeautiful the same as archetype beauty? I think Rob's hyperbeautiful face was what got his scene deleted from the Vanity Fair film. Reese Witherspoon looked as if she were in drag next to him. The men all looked dead. This deleted scene was to look at cloning and Death. That could not be allowed.

This type of beauty is closely allied with Camp. On Sontag: The Androgyne is certainly one of the great images of Camp sensibility. ...the haunting androgynous vacancy behind the perfect beauty of Greta Garbo. Here, Camp taste draws on a mostly unacknowledged truth of taste: the most refined form of sexual attractiveness (as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure) consists in going against the grain of one's sex. What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.


Beauty is not negotiable since its radiance simply emerges irrespective of any efforts made to deserve it, and no one can offer it its equivalent. Its annihilation it must perform itself. (Baudrillard - Cool Memories 1980-85 p. 96)

And another beautiful male archetype of beauty


Antonin Artaud - Beautiful, Tortured, Mad, Genius, Delirious, Perfect

Vanity Fair March 2011 cover Rob Pattinson

An old-fashioned young man went fishing one day. He caught a huge fish. It was so big and heavy that he had to sling it across his shoulders to carry it home. It became an Albatross around his neck just like the Ancient Mariner. It was as tough as shoe leather and had vicious teeth that could bite him, tear him to pieces and even kill him. Did he catch the fish? Maybe it caught him.

Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea caught a gigantic fish. In bringing it home it was eaten by sharks, torn apart day after day. Until when he came home, only the skeleton remained, all goodness stripped from the gift from the sea by the sea.

Jesus carried his cross, beaten and bloody and was nailed on it. A sacrificial willing victim to fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah.

Steinbeck's Kino opening oysters day after day at last found the Pearl of the World. Unable to exchange it for its worth he threw it back into the sea.

There is only one world. You have only one life. Neither one of these can be exchanged since there is only one. Baudrillard calls this Impossible Exchange. However, Virtual Reality can steal both of them. Baudrillard calls this The Perfect Crime.

The young man found a girl. As David in the film David and Lisa says, "A pearl of a girl."