Reading Assange and Manning Through Zizek's Criminality of Law and Order

Zizek's Introduction is Perfect.

Snowden Escaped Barely in Time Thanks to Assange

Foucault's Genealogy of Parrhesia- From Ancient Greece

Write to Assange in Solidarity

Manning Back in Jail. Obama Waited Too Long to Free Her

Zizek's Introduction

....anarchist outbursts are not a transgression of the Law and Order; in our societies , anarchism already is in power wearing the mask of Law and Order - our Justice is the travesty of Justice, the spectacle of Law and Order is an obscene carnival - the point made clear by the arguably greatest political poem in English, Shelley's 'The Mask of Anarchy', which describes the obscene parade of the figures of power:

And many more Destructions played

In this ghastly masquerade,

All disguised, even to the eyes,

Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

Last came anarchy: he rode

On a white horse, splashed with blood,

He was pale even to the lips,

Like Death in the Apocalypse.

And he wore a kingly crown;

And in his grasp a sceptre shone;

On his brow this mark I saw - 

'I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW!'

And is not this Hegelian-Chestertonian shift from the criminal transgression of Law and Order to Law and Order itself as the highest criminal transgression directly enacted by Mao (read the US here)  himself? This is why, while setting in motion and secretly pulling the strings of the self-destructive carnival, Mao nonetheless remained exempt from its turbulence: at no moment was there ever a serious threat that Stalin (or Mao) himself would be ritualistically deposed, treated as 'yesterday a king, today a beggar' - he was not the traditional Master, but the 'Lord of Misrule':

And who is our Lord of Misrule? Trump? Congress? Or all of them? 

NO

It is the reign of today's global capitalism which is the true LORD OF MISRULE!

ZIZEK

Reading ERIC HOFFER's The True Believer

This book has been around since 1951 and there are many copies very affordable at Amazon and I guess elsewhere.

Hoffer outlines the variables necessary and sufficient for recruiting members to a MASS MOVEMENT.  The US has none of these variables and is immune to being recruited. 

What about the homeless! They have nothing. Well when people are in this mode of survival - not living, survival - they spend the day trying to find a safe place to rest, maybe eat their lunch if they have found food, or a safe place to sleep, etc. The day to day survival precludes and takes their energy for any time for thinking, contemplation, solidarity, or plans to resist. It is just day to day and just that's the way the world is for me now. They have no communal support and are in competition with each other every day. 

Equality is not a variable, and this is what Americans demand and yell for all the time. Equality is divisive and leaves people wanting more and more seeing that their neighbors have more than they. So as Americans demand equality they are becoming more alone, frustrated, desperate, passive and helpless. And competitive.

But the good news is that US policy abroad is creating refugees, maybe manufacturing refugees is a better word, in apparently unlimited numbers as they keep increasing.

When people are torn from their country, their tribe, their groups, their families, their homes, their hopes and dreams invested in their traditional way of life, and the complete loss of all communal financial and emotional support they are RIPE for recruiting into a 

MASS MOVEMENT 

that will offer them what they have lost.

China will not have to wean them away from their homes, work at disrupting their family life (Marx), as it is all being done for them by the US military. China will be able to arrive on the scene offering hope and a purposeful future of cooperative activity, just as they are doing in Zimbabwe. BTW China knows this and is just playing the Waiting Game. 

Their history is to NOT have to fire a shot. 

And their history is to order all into a harmonic world peace. They have been to boot camp on all this in their 4000 years of chaos,wars, aggressions, conflicts, dynasties, competition of rulers, etc. And each dynasty studied the failures and successes of the past ones so they would not be repeated. 

Also China has been able to embrace and obtain the strengths of their conquerors and the ones they have conquered. This is exactly what Marcuse said of the capitalistic machine. It devours its opposition - like Pac-Man - and makes itself stronger. 

This is going to be very interesting as China's challenge - reading through Toynbee now - is deterritorialized corporate capitalism. Will China be able to meet that challenge and continue on a path of growth.

Enter China and its Communistic, Socialistic Culture. As the US creates ever more people for China to win over they have no idea they are sowing the seeds for the future of the world that is coming at us like an unseen tractor trailer down the highway. 

We should be reminded that the US has multitudes of Chinese citizens already solidly in the Universities, businesses, the arts, etc. They are formidable, educated, obedient and disciplined. The strength of China has been in the order of the families laid down by Confucius. 

Already world finance is lining up in China. We received the Gift of 9-11 in the Symbolic Order as expounded by Jean Baudrillard. A Counter-Gift is required. Not right away but it must be returned and it must be greater than the Gift or the receiver of the Gift must commit suicide. So we are seeing the US committing suicide now. Killing Bin Laden occurred in the Order of Production not the Symbolic Order and it doesn't count.

So here we are fussing about who released emails that told the truth which we didn't want released of course, and fussing about Biden smelling a woman's hair a few years ago and touching another one.Well Nero fiddled his fiddle while Rome burned, didn't he?