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On his way back from Ireland in 1937, Artaud was put into a straight jacket. Once back on French soil, he was turned over to the authorities. This was the beginning of a nine-year stint in hospitals with Artaud in what biographer Martin Esslin called a “near-catatonic state.” Artaud has been hailed as one of the strongest influences on the theater in the 20th century, and The Theater and Its Double is his seminal work. This masterpiece, published in 1938 while he was detained, is where Artaud says, “If Shakespeare and his imitators have gradually insinuated the idea of art for art’s sake, with art on one side and life on the other, we can rest on this feeble and lazy idea only as long as the life outside endures. But there are too many signs that everything that used to sustain our lives no longer does so, that we are all mad, desperate, and sick. And I call for us to react.”[1] Antonin Artaud spent the duration of the Second World War, the duration of the German occupation of France, in an asylum; some of those years were spent in the German occupied zone, his madness surrounded by the world going mad. He went to Ireland to bring on the apocalypse, and instead he found this catastrophe: “The tortured man has been taken for a Madman by everybody. He has appeared before the world as a Madman. And the image of the world’s madness was incarnated in tortured man”[2]

https://jacket2.org/commentary/antonin-artaud-asylums-and-after

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America, as the saying goes, is not a country; it is a business. This time it is dealing in human lives.

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Jun 20, 2022Liked by Stegiel

Open Air Asylum, obviously.

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The current ‘pandemic’ is approached through the lens of (mainly) the concept of Homo sacer, elaborated on by Giorgio Agamben (1998). Taking the work of Michel Foucault on the ‘disciplinary society’ and ‘bio-politics’ further, and drawing on the role played by the principle of homo sacer in antiquity, Agamben uncovers the disconcerting extent to which this principle has become generalised in contemporary societies. In antiquity the principle of ‘sacred man/human’ was invoked in cases where someone was exempted from ritual sacrifice, but simultaneously seen as ‘bare life’, and therefore as being fit for execution. Agamben argues that the sphere of ‘sacred life’ has grown immensely since ancient times in so far as the modern state arrogates to itself the right to wield biopolitical power over ‘bare life’ in a manner analogous to ancient practices, and finds in the concentration camp the contemporary paradigm of this phenomenon. Arguing that today we witness a further downward step in the treatment of humans as ‘bare life’, these concepts are employed as heuristic for bringing into focus current practices under the aegis of the Covid-19 ‘pandemic’. In particular, the spotlight falls on those areas where burgeoning ‘bare life’ practices can be detected, namely ‘origin of the virus’, ‘lethal vaccines’, ‘engineered economic collapse’, ‘chemtrails’ and ‘what (to expect) next’. In the light of emerging evidence it is argued that these practices take the notion of homo sacer, ‘bare life’ and its concomitant biopolitical and pharma-political practices to unprecedented, virtually incomprehensible levels of depravity. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361054041_Beyond_Agamben's_'Homo_Sacer'_-the_'pandemic'_as_final_reduction_of_humanity_to_'bare_life'

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Open air extermination camp.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/cases-brain-damage-children-skyrocket-following-covid-19-vaccines/5782160

Weakened hearts, blood clots, and now you can add neurological brain damage to the list of side effects being reported in children following COVID-19 vaccinations.

In at least one case, one poor child developed all three conditions.

In a case study published earlier this month (May, 2022) in the Journal of Neuroimmunology, a 15-year-old girl developed encephalopathy, myocarditis, and thrombocytopenia simultaneously following the second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

As billions of people are getting vaccinated, it is not surprising that vaccine-related adverse events are coming into focus and being reported in the scientific literature.

Here we report a case of COVID-19 mRNA Pfizer- BioNTech vaccine-associated encephalopathy, myocarditis, and thrombocytopenia following the second dose of vaccine which responded dramatically to methylprednisolone. (Source.)

Neurological issues are common side effects of all childhood vaccines, and are often grouped under the label of “autism.” There is a very clear correlation with increased vaccinations of children to rising rates of autism in the United States, even though the U.S. Government health agencies refuse to acknowledge any causal effect between the bloated childhood vaccine schedule and diagnoses of autism.

It is no surprise, therefore, that we are seeing similar reports following the deadly COVID-19 vaccines.

But how do reports of brain damage following COVID-19 vaccines compare to the rate of brain damage reported with all other vaccines administered for the previous 30 years before the roll-out of the COVID-19 experimental shots?

To develop a baseline, I chose to search VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System) for all cases reporting “encephalopathy” following vaccination.

“Encephalopathy” is a term for “any diffuse disease of the brain that alters brain function or structure.” (Source.)

This term alone does not represent all the cases of neurological damage to the brain that are reported in VAERS, but it does give us a point of reference to compare cases reported after COVID-19 shots as compared to all other FDA-approved vaccines for the previous 30+ years.

And what I found was that there is a 2,000%+ increase in brain injuries being reported after COVID-19 shots.

Here are the results based on a search for “encephalopathy” symptoms after COVID-19 vaccines. (Source.) Notice the high rate of death among these cases of “encephalopathy.

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When people have nothing to lose they lose it.

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