9. There are two kinds of oppressions
Concentrate.
There are antipodes all over. The world is laid around on its axises.
Teleological reversals are when means become ends. Not the other way
around. Money and culture are antipodal. Magnetic poles.
Dialectically speaking, history is produced by the tension between
opposites. History is written by people who do not think
dialectically. Finding the subpar performer. Informing him or her of
their situation. You are a subpar performer. Now, now. Don’t cry.
Cry outside. Leave now. Out the door or out the window. Deleuze threw
himself out the window. As did Maganov. Unfortunately, Miss Quin’s
various assets seem to have become somewhat widely distributed after
her death. There are two kinds of depressions. Fifty-four rejections.
You are a type 1. You are faking your symptoms. You are worse than
nothing. You are a subpar performer, making no money. Your N+1 will
inform you of the dispositions. There are two kinds of depressions.
That’s it. The world breaks down into two things, almost always.
Dialectically speaking, the world revolves. Revolving is around the
center. Ann was depressed. The center is empty. Ann was depressing.
The center is nothing. The depressed are depressing. It is called the
dead center. Don’t talk to the depressed. Revolution means : a
brutal and sudden change, enforced by the uprising of the people,
leaving no stone unturned and establishing a new vector for the
future. Revolution means : the coming around of a celestial body
to its original position, the completion of a rotation, an ellipse, a
loop, a return, a homeward bound revolution. There are two kinds of
revolutions. The dead center is the middle. There are two kinds of
middles. The middle is the point in the center. The individual is a
point in space, occupying no territory. The middle is all the points
around the center, but not the center. Lamarckianically speaking, the
middle is everything but the dead center. The center is dead. There
are two kinds of almost everything. Darwin and Kropotkin. The jungle
and the desert. Opposites attract. We call that enantiodromia. What
is hot will cool. What is wet will dry. But will what is dry wet ?
Opposites attract. Not always. Marjorie was attracted to the car
going in the opposite direction. Braking distance is incompressible :
it is a factor of speed. The sleekness of the wet road. Marjorie
became a giant flowering wound at 80km/h. The other driver became a
bag of scars but didn’t die. Relativity matters. Relatively
speaking, Marjorie was a product of her environment. Syntagms are
useful for editing. Blinks are useful for editing. Edit the blinks.
Follow the eyes. Don’t cross over the talking line. Blinks are
tics, at times. Repressed motion produces a motion. Tics are
repressed motions. The depressed have all kinds of emotions. Emotion
is an unknown quantity. Depression is an unknown quantity.
Obsolescence will end the depression. Repression will end the
depression. Repetition will end the questions. Repetition
legitimizes. Echolalia is automatic. Cut quick, deep cuts. Fucking
ponderous, man. Automatically speaking, echolalia is a reflex. Tics
are a repressed motion, producing a motion that is different to the
motion that is repressed. Bresson was a serious filmmaker. Piece of
pie, bud. I found my holy ghost. Haunted by echos, all is echos, Echo
repeated, again and again. Her shrivelled love, writhing in pain. Oh
how she longed to make her passion known [exclamation]. Echolalically
speaking, repetition satiates semantically. Semantically speaking,
Marjorie was a product of her environment. Born determined.
Determined to emancipate from her environment. Born product.
Emancipatorily speaking, Marjorie was a product. Thank you for your
shitty letter of yesterday. Environmentally speaking, Marjorie was as
devastating as cyclone Tracy. Tracy ruined Darwin. Herbert Spencer
ruined Darwin. Darwin was left in ruins. Baby it’s true.
Dolicocephalically speaking, Marjorie was not it. Gene by gene,
Marjorie degenerated. Marjorie was a degenerate : it was in her
genes. Baby it’s true. The joke’s on you. Hermeneutically
speaking, Marjorie did not know the meaning of the word. Failure is
imminent. We better get started. The best way to start is to fail.
Failure is immanent. Marjorie’s brakes may have failed : an
analysis will reveal. Marjorie’s brakes may have failed, but she
did not call upon them. What we have here is a failure to
communicate. Marjorie was travelling much slower than sound over
water. Repetition legitimizes, satiation disappears. Marjorie
disappeared. People disappear and are disappeared. Marjorie’s
father disappeared. Dogs get cancer. Marjorie’s father got cancer.
Do the math. Dog or no dog ? Life is not a mistake. Marjorie
drowned in the noise. Joyce drowned in the noise. Joyce was
interrupted, remember. The person Joyce was dictating to, it seems
pointless to hold on to. Sam Beckett. Mr. Beckett. Beckett, Samuel.
Called that way, eventually, he records. Dictating Finnegan’s Wake.
Joyce was almost blind. Borges was blind. Joyce dictated to anyone
who would take his notes. Hitler spoke and Bormann wrote. Borges
wrote poems so he could remember, grasp the text at once. Dictating
to his mother. Eisenstein cut until he was blind. Eisenstein met
Joyce, who was almost blind. Joyce played a record of his voice,
dictating. Perhaps it was Eisenstein who interrupted Joyce in his
dictation to Beckett, that one time. Dictating Finnegan’s Wake.Dictators are all alike.
Happy families are all alike. World miseries are all alike. The
carved cheeks, the sharp specks of soil on an enlightening
photograph. Beckett wrote a play called Play,
and a film called Film.
Beckett was a simple man.
Simple men are all alike. Simple men are all happy. Simple men have
families. Simple men have happy families. Marjorie’s father was a
simple man. Marjorie’s father was a happy man. Marjorie’s father
left Marjorie with no money. Marjorie’s family was happy, like all
families. Not sure Leo got
that one right…. Marjorie’s father was nothing in the
world. Children are not allowed in the library. Marjorie’s mother
was an irresponsible mother’s irresponsible mother’s
irresponsible mother. Fifty-five rejections. Understand : the
fate of Marjorie’s daughter is to be an irresponsible mother. How
could it be otherwise. Marjorie’s daughter is determined. Born
determined, hoping to become the subject of her own thoughts.
Unlikely to do so. No protocol. No training. No planet. There is no
planet. Thank you for inviting me into your home. Marjorie did not
speak, ever. Count the individuals. Marjorie was spoken by, was
spoken through. Marjorie’s daughter will not speak. Things that
don’t speak are frightening. What do they want ? Beasts do not
speak : that is why they frighten us as they do. Beasts do not have
souls. Beasts do not carry their deaths with them. Beasts are silent.
Dogs are silent. Barking dogs never bite. Barking dogs do not bite
the hand that feeds them. The strong hand that feeds the dog may
belong to nothing in the world at all. Marjorie was silent like the
barking dogs. Marjorie’s barks weren’t bites. Marjorie did not
bite the hand that fed her. Management is from the hand. We must lead
the managers. Managers used to lead. Leads are used to lead horses to
water. You can lead a beast to water. Sound travels slower above
water. Beasts are silent. In the eye of beasts is no soul, no death,
no pain. Nothing. The smallest crumb can devour us. There are things
that are nothing in the world. Marjorie loved bees. Bees are
disappearing. Bees are disappeared by the elitewho do not thing much about bees. It’s not a big problem. It’s
the bees’ problem. Bees are the subject of
their own decisions. Let the
bees decide whether they disappear or not. Bees are responsible.
Marjorie loved bees. Derrida loved cats. Cats hate bees. Bees have no
feelings. Bees do not speak. Bees are silent. Bees do not know they
are going to die : yet, they will. All bees will turn into
flowers. To speak is to make sounds with meaning. Intent, maybe. To
speak is to separate the signal from the noise. Marjorie spoke,
phatically speaking. Marjorie did not make signal. Phatically
speaking, Marjorie’s speak contained no signal. Marjorie made
noises with her mouth. Bees make noises with their flight. Dogs make
noises with their mouths. Bees make themselves busy with the honey.
In times of need, bees look up to the crop of the creamfor guidance. The creamdoesn’t think about the bees. The
crop thinks
about the means. The bees are ending. The cream doesn’t think about
the ends of bees. The cream thinks about bees as a means. To what end
? Endoscopically speaking, bees are a means to make honey. Marjorie
was a means to what end ? Majoritarily speaking, Marjorie was a
means to the ends of producing more with less. Marjorie was less.
Marjorie could be used to make more. Bees are nothing in the world.
The death of a bee is nothing, as well. Bee (1984 – 1984 †).
The death of Marjorie is nothing, as well. The analogy is between
Marjorie and the bee. We
will do wonderful things with bees. We
did some wonderful things with these people. The
means don’t exist, statistically. I’ve
never met anyone who lives in an average American household. Louise
Erdrich might. The
impossible is the new normal. In
Swedish, the end is Slutet.
Movies end, almost universally. At the end of many movies, we say :
the end. To signify to the lookers that they must now leave. The eye
is crafted. In Swedish, they write:Slut at
the end of movies. Ingmar Bergman was a very serious movie maker. The
ends are a serious business. At
the end of his movies, it says : Slut.
It’s
funny.
Some people think Lolita is a slut. Beasts
have no feelings. Sluts
have no feelings. Lolita was a little beast with no feelings. History
is written by people who don’t read the ends of books. The end is
the
slut, still.Let’s
focus up here. Lolita
is spoken through. Marjorie is spoken through. Beasts don’t speak.
Silence is scary. Beasts don’t suffer. Insufferable.
I
did not understand Marjorie’s problems under the olive tree.
Marjorie
was just a poor child when she was eating cheese on the lawn. On
the lawn, Marjorie was eating cheese and pups when she saw some bees.
Marjorie had no feelings. Marjorie was a beast. Beasts are silent. In
the desert, beasts keep their energy. Their are logical relationships
between beasts. Lolita
was a poor child of twelve, think the people who read to the ends.
Dialectically speaking, the house metaphorizes the world. Marjorie
went inside the house when she heard a scream. The Screamis
a painting,
I guess. The threshold is where the world turns around on its head.
Rabelais
could not possibly be an atheist, no matter what they say. In
Australia, people walk upside down. In
Australia, people look down at their feet in times of need. For
guidance. Feet are for guidance. Beyond the feet is the elite.
The threshold indicates a movement. Stasis is to say : up and
down. Abdicate
or else. Dynamic
means to say : upwards and downwards. You know. The threshold is
where the father manifests. Marjorie was not understood by her friend
under the tree. On the lawn, the scream was heard. Marjorie was
eating cheese on the lawn when she heard her brother scream.
The
Krakatoa exploded in 1883, making a big noise. Noise is a sound that
carries no information. Noise is nothing in the world. Noise
is what the brother made when he cut his hand. Screams are noises.
Screams carry no information. Screams are nothing. Shadows are
nothing. Negatively defined. Hint : if it feels like you are
really in a place, the place you are in is not the place you feel you
are in. Negatively defined : the place where you feel you are,
you aren’t. You are elsewhere. Screams seem like shadows. Sound
travels slower above water. Bitcoin bounces back to a new high. TheScream was
painted in 1893. Diddly shit. No one gives a shit. Marjorie is
nothing in the world. Nothing is something that no one gives a shit
about. Marjorie is a thing in the world that no one gives a shit
about. Trees speak. The speaking of trees is a creak. Creaks.
Dialectically
speaking, Darwin and Kropotkin are necessary. Kropotkin
was convinced by the watchmakers. Everyone
hates themselves. Everyone hates their country. Don’t argue. It’s
all facts. Facts can be true or false. Either way, they are facts.
Everyone wants to be elsewhere than they are right now. Everyone
wants to hurt the person they love the most. Dialectically
speaking, our dichotomies may be established over long distances.
Long distance dichotomies can be built across space. Indonesia and
Mexico. France and Australia. Australia and Mars. Long distance
dichotomies can be built across time. 66 million years ago, 1815.
2021, 2005, 2003. Colin Powell lied about the war. Fact. Colin
Powell said what he believed about the war. Fact. Colin Powell knew
that what he believed was false. Fact. Colin Powell believed in false
facts. Fact.
Belief is not what it seems it is. Fact. Paul Veyne said : did
the Greeks believe that Zeus was living on top of Mount Olympus ?
Fact. The Greeks believed in gods. Fact. The Greeks knew Zeus didn’t
live on Olympus. Fact. Easily checked. Fact. Our ancestors were
stupid. Fact. In 1226, a pig was burned alive for having eaten a
small child. There is no planet. Rejoice. Try some weevils,
stir-fried. Rejoice. Weevils were tried too. Fact. A bear was put in
jail in Kazakhstan in 2004. Fact. The Thirty Years War began with
some defenestrations in Prague. Fact. Deleuze defenestrated himself.
Fact. Putin visited a man named Maganov in 2022. The same day,
Maganov was defenestrated.
Some facts are true, some facts are false. Smile.
Abraham Lincoln threw himself out of a window in 1840.
Smile
for the camera, Abraham. Windows
are the eyes of the buildings. Windows wants to update with you.
Subpar performers like Deleuze, Maganov, Lincoln, will be
defenestrated. Statistically
speaking, the total mass of false facts is larger than that of true
facts. In fact, logically speaking, one might assume there might be a
near infinite number of false facts for each true fact. Fact. TheScreamis a loud noise that came from Indonesia. Specifically,
Krakatoa. Sound travels slower over water, but it travels further.
Noise is sound that carries no information. By this we mean :
the signal is embedded in the noise. The noise is the carrier. The
noise must be separated from the signal. Children, beasts and the
dying see the world openly. What they say is noise. In the City, the
slaves speak in noise. As do the children. As do the beasts. As do
the dying. As
do the lovers. Your judgement is impaired by love. By youth. By the
imminence of death. Your
judgement is incorrect if you are a creature who sees the world in
the Open. The eye is crafted.
Crafted
eyes give careful judgements. To
listen to children means to listen to noise : no information.
Noise
is a kind of a language. The scream communicates something. I
can make the difference between the scream of one who is upset and
the scream of someone who is in pain.
Thieves were tortured, very recently. People who knew nothing. Their
screams meant nothing. The man came to the prison. The man saw the
first cell. The first cell was equipped with a device for hanging
prisoners. The man said : I don’t need to see the rest. With
me, you’ll never be responsible again. Children are irresponsible.
Children can’t be trusted. They
scream when they’re upset.
Are
you sure ? You know that a grownup can be in trouble if you are
lying, right ? Children are not serious people. They live life
frivolously. No strategy. The State is [children
cheering]
obvious. I am the State, says the manager. The death of children is a
tragedy [audience
crying].
Children are nothing in the world. Children are like bees, and
Marjorie. Marjorie was still as a child when she exploded into a
giant flowering wound in her car. The car crashed then she died.
Trees
speak in creaks. Children and the people who are nothing in the world
are thrown in shit pits and executed summarily. It doesn’t matter.
What matters is the manner. By this we mean : how are the people
who are nothing in the world executed ? We think about the
means. Manners are the means. Trees are the means. When they grow,
they store the bad gases. I have a tropical forest, I am the only
carbon neutral individual. Neutrality
is meaningless. Neutrality is for nothing. Tears are for nothing.
Hint : Some tears are worth more than others. Act gracefully.
Cry with one crafted eye. Cry
later.
I
have, therefore I am. People who have, are, and, of course, people
who have not, are not. Fact.