They noted an increased suggestibility found in children who ‘space out’ while consuming television or film media and pointed out that, by the time they reach adolescence, the average American has spent tens of thousands of hours in front of television sets, has watched as many murders and “engineered acts of violence” and has been exposed to hundreds of thousands of commercials filled with “arbitrary symbols of coded commands and meanings.”. . .
The advent of the postmodern era has radically disrupted the notion of identity. In a world rampant with “self-referential illusions and postmodern self-parodies,” multiple, simultaneous realities and corresponding selves exist and are greatly informed, even created, by popular media. In 2012, a Boston Globe opinion piece expounded on the Batman Shooting, by observing how “it is possible for any of us, of any age or gender, to avoid reality all day in America by keeping our eyes fixed on our screens.”. . .
“I think Tim is his own worst enemy. He was very rigid. He was overly responsible and conscientious. Sometimes he was hard on others. He had lofty goals for himself and he had the same expectations for others. When they didn’t live up to Tim he could get his back up. He had no use for a job done half-way.”. . .
Tim said that when his father lost his temper, he usually dealt with it by retreating to his bedroom and learned to prevent Bill’s tendency to ‘overreact’ by avoiding certain topics of discussion. . . .
According to Tim, while Bill never learned to deal with his anger properly, the main thing he learned from his father was, ironically, the value of controlling his own. “[I] learned a deeper lesson by experiencing my dad’s short temper (surprised, huh?) […] I would never ‘fly off the handle’ without thinking thru my reaction and subsequent action. I would go thru life not yelling every time the situation was adverse, and I would not make a habit of raising my voice when not necessary to get results.” . . .
Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh, by Wendy Painting
once again, from the back: fuck Noam Chomsky
“Why does Chomsky pretend to not understand this?”
Deleuze & Guattari
well well well, shout out to the Pay-Walled Street Journal for serving me up a nice helping of vindication in the form of some choice quotes from the limp left’s favorite American “dissident” Known Chumpsky, who apparently kept the company of everyone’s favorite prison “suicide” victim Jeffrey Epstein. when asked whether he knew the, ahem, disgraced financier, Chomsky said, “First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.”
really now! suddenly Mr. Government Transparency thinks he can invoke his right to privacy when asked about compromising activities! and “occasionally”? I “occasionally” have two cups of coffee in a day, which is to say, not infrequently. what sort of “occasion” is it to meet with sex traffickers connected to intelligence agencies, hmmmm? of course, Noam might be using words loosely. you know, the way a philosopher of language might.
at least Bill Gates has the sense to feign regret. what is anyone supposed to read this as other than mealy mouthed defensiveness?
Chomksy goes on to say that “[Epstein] had been convicted of a crime and had served his sentence. According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate.” bro. dawg. homie. this is a joke, right? the “anarcho-syndicalist” who made his name outside linguistics on (barely) criticizing the laws and norms of the Amerikkkan Empire says “the justice system works” when it’s about a pedophile rapist receiving a slap on the wrist because he was friends with Bill Clinton? to say nothing of how U.S. norms generally cast sex offenders as social pariahs in perpetuity. just a totally nihilistic hand wave. I’m not even going to address him weaseling out of the question of whether he met Woody Allen with Epstein by saying “I’m unaware of the principle that requires that I inform you about an evening spent with a great artist.” Woody Allen fucking sucks dude, shut the fuck up.
oh, and if people worse than Epstein donated to MIT, THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU WORK THERE YOU if I use the epithet I wanted to use people will think I’m being anti-Semitic.
“Non-Sequitur” Coda
The entire technique of the “secret” societies is to conduct their controversies as if the terms of reference were historical. Historical scholarship and criticism (in the arts) is as much their field of present battle as the news, poem, play, novel, painting or musical composition.
Marshall McLuhan, in a letter to Eric Voegelin
on resisting The Algorithm
In everyday life you will find that your boss, your lover, or your government often try to manipulate you. They propose a “game” to you in the form of a choice in which one of the alternatives appears definitely preferable. Having chosen this alternative, you are faced with a new game, and very soon you find that your reasonable choices have brought you to something you never wanted: you are trapped. To avoid this, remember that acting a bit erratically may be the best strategy. What you lose by making some sub-optimal choices you make up for by keeping greater freedom.
David Ruelle, Chance and Chaos
therapy’s going great
what’re you trying to say that it’s only possible to achieve greatness if you cast off the inhibitions imposed by sanity who cares if Freud was a cocaine addicted cigar puffing basket case what does saying Jung was psychotic mean for the ways he shifted the world Joyce may or may not have been manic depressive but there’s no disputing his broad knowledge of language history politics literature art science you’re just trying to box me in what if I want to be insane what if I want to pursue every last ambition with the doggedness of a heat seeking missile what do you mean heat seeking missiles explode what do you mean que es la significa amiga maybe sanity is a prison and the only way to get out of this situation is to lose it a little huh huh how about that don’t tell me to calm down who’s paying who here huh watch me brandish my piercing intellect like a disgruntled postal worker driven the end of his lonely patience and forced into drastic measures to see the effect of his existence on the world I will swallow the world like a serpent with unhinged jaw (get it? unhinged??) I can do it all I can do it all and you’re one of those agents sent to check me when my ambitions get too high they don’t want me to win [dj khaled voice:] DJ KHALED! because if I win they lose and they can’t lose they always win what am I going to do what am I going to do the guards are closing in lashing whips like Inquisitors burning witches like Puritans killing heretics like Templars blackmailing radicals like the FBI but I’m not a witch heretic radical I’m just a boring nobody whining in his therapist’s office
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jinx’s détournement
détournement is an artistic practice, first developed by the Letterist International and adopted by the Situationists, that utilizes preexisting cultural artifacts and repurposes them into something intended to draw attention to the contradictions of the original production’s milieu. it is a form of artistic propaganda that turns the language of bourgeois society against itself. to even contemplate détournement as a viable artistic project in 2023 is a little quaint: a common example mentioned as counterargument is how graphic designers at AdBusters often wound up working for the very advertising agencies they lampooned.
I’m not someone who wants to give up the game so easily. the oscillation between subversion and reification is just that: an oscillation. anyone who thinks that avenues of refusal, rebellion, and resistance have been permanently sealed by the coronation of neoliberal capitalism is only spinning Francis Fukuyama’s End of History into a scolding leftist critique.
that being said, I’m also not someone who believes art ought to be propaganda. this is the position held by Debord and Wolman in their essay “A User’s Guide to Détournement”. as I often like to say to myself, I’m not an activist, I’m an artist: think what you will of that. nonetheless, I reserve more disdain for nihilist aesthetes than I do for anyone who views art as a vehicle for ideology, so I’m interested in methods for artistic production that are engaged in some kind of political or moral struggle. but I reserve the right to leave you guessing what exactly I believe. my sympathies should be obvious enough.
anyway, revisiting the Debord/Wolman essay, I got some ideas for my own projects, but more interestingly, I was reminded of one of the few “content creators” I truly admire: jinx.
he repurposes clips from films, news footage, pop songs, wikipedia articles, and internet ephemera–the cultural material of networked capitalism–into provocative political education of an alternate history, with the intention of estranging the viewer from preconceived notions. he’s also very funny, if sometimes offensive.
my original thought was to talk more about this, but I’m not that interested in doing, idk, critical theory or art analysis or whatever. then I wanted to post the Tim Russert edit but trying to find specific jinx edits is nearly impossible.
Détournement is less effective the more it approaches a rational reply
Guy Debord & Gil J Wolman
Terence McKenna on the situation we find ourselves in
I think that a conscious decision was made by the American establishment at the close of the 1960s, and what they said to themselves was, “This idea of universal education, and an educated citizenry, this, we don’t like. We see now what happens when you educate your citizens: they figure out the game, and they come to you with their plans for reform, and how to make it better.” So I was, at least at the University of California, I was among the last people to go through that university where the goal was to inform you about the nature of the enterprise called “Western Civilization.” And after that, what they got into was this MBA, data entry, all this stuff. The universities became trade schools, and what they give you is video games. They give you TV, video games, and they give you a skill. They say, “You’re a level three data enterer. We’re gonna give you $35,000 dollars a year, and please shut up about it. That’s it. You’ve been brought inside. But we’re not interested in your opinions. We’re giving you a life, we’re giving you a trade, and we’ll be giving you some orders downstream, and by God you better snap to when the moment comes.” This has nothing to do with democracy. This is fascism, is what it is….Everything is commoditized. People these days want to be secure. I don’t really understand that. You need a certain critical mass to give that up. It’s great when you and all your friends agree you don’t care whether you starve or not because you’re going to have so much fun doing it, but it’s hard to reach that place by yourself, because it’s not very much fun. There is a problem in that we are manipulated, and we are not empowered, and those who are empowered, it wouldn’t be so bad if they had a plan. But their plan is, you know, another house, another Mercedes, a deeper swimming pool. This is no plan. And so it’s up to the creativity of ordinary people.
Terence McKenna
Helena Blavatsky on creativity
As God creates, so man can create. Given a certain intensity of will, and the shapes created by the mind become subjective. Hallucinations, they are called, although to their creator they are real as any visible object is to any one else. Given a more intense and intelligent concentration of this will, and the form becomes concrete, visible, objective; the man has learned the secret of secrets; he is a MAGICIAN.
Isis Unveiled