After July 28th 1914 tomorrow was every day. 1915 was quite distant.
History is silent on dates and on whom consulted and exactly who was consulted, and silent also on which nations (if any) did so in 1914 or before or after. I know we have histories, letters, memoirs, ephemera and anecdotes and yes of course doing a bit of digging we will likely find something like “You Are Here” relating in a slightly gossiping tone the meeting with Asmodeus by Lord Kent in late March 1914 after reading 1300 entrails of London orphans and one thousand amputated big toes of Hong Kong adults over 40. The author of the quite rare 50 page 500 book print run for an obscure arctic Canadian Masonic Lodge died in a hunting accident shortly after publication in curious circumstances involving a slip and fall on the antlers of a most extraordinary gigantic ice age deer in the Yukon -31 black and white photos for the the court review of the transfer, a shot by shot grisly impalement on all antlers. This estate valuing him as the 4th richest man in England passed to the Crown under a 12th century law on August 30th, 1914, the same day in 1914 as the conclusion of Battle of Tannenberg, The German army lost only 10,000 men but inflicted 170,000 casualties on the Russians. The Battle of Masurian Lakes occured as the Germans pursued the retreating Russian force inflicting another 125,000 casualties while once again only losing 10,000 of their own men.
I am 67 and not 67 in 1914 London destitute quite yet, I’m thriving by fighting against 2024 USA and not 1914 England. I amuse myself by reading, thinking and gambling that freedom pays off in the end and consider myself the inheritor of a tremendous fortune that is not at all monetary but spiritual. So in this light, mockery, or say it’s highest form of Movkery, a mocking, the self mocking subject, say man, the featherless biped gifted with speech and who goes on and on saying nothing really of interest or benefit, leaving it up to the able few to speak and do something, as they admire and enjoy the Theater of Cruelty.
A largely movement-based performance style, Theatre of Cruelty aimed to shock the senses of its audience, sometimes using violent and confronting images that appealed to emotions. The text was given a reduced emphasis in Artaud’s theatre, as movement and gesture became just as powerful as the spoken word. Piercing sound and bright stage lights bombarded the audience during performances.
Artaud experimented with the relationship between performer and audience, preferring to place spectators at the very centre with the intention of trapping them inside the drama.
The obvious evidently is ignored. Why is the leadership of the West destroying the West? They are following orders. Why was the Ukraine allowed to be a dagger after 2014 and why immediately as Corona hysteria subsides does the Ukraine hot war erupt greatly hastening the Great Reset? Globalism is in the saddle and rides mankind. China, Israel, Iran and Russia as much as the USA woven into the Reset. War enables cover ups of the many crimes to date including lethal non-vaccinations. The Gross Universal Cash Heist in order to continue to grow parasitically is somewhat a rules based normative system. In enacting sanctions that drive Russia and China together the Chinese mode of Communist Capitalism triumphs.
GIORGIO AGAMBEN
First published on Quodlibet, December 15th, 2020
The form of capitalism that is being consolidated on a planetary scale is not that which it had assumed in the West: it is, rather, capitalism in its communist variation, which unites an extremely rapid development of production with a totalitarian political regime. This is the historical significance of the leading role that China is taking on, not only in the realm of the economy in a narrow sense, but also – as the political use of the pandemic has so eloquently demonstrated – as a paradigm for the government of men. That the regimes established in so-called communist countries were a particular form of capitalism, specially adapted for economically backward countries and thus labelled ‘state capitalism’, was perfectly clear to anyone who knows how to read history; what was entirely unexpected, however, is that this form of capitalism, which seemed to have exhausted its function and was thus now obsolete, was instead destined – in a technologically updated configuration – to become the ruling principle of the current phase of globalized capitalism. Indeed, it is possible that today we are observing a conflict between Western capitalism, which used to exist alongside the ‘state of law’ and bourgeois democracy, and this new communist capitalism, a conflict in which the latter version appears to have emerged as the victor. What is certain, however, is that the new regime will combine the most inhumane aspects of capitalism with the most atrocious aspects of state communism, combining the extreme alienation of relations between people with an unprecedented social control.
– Giorgio Agamben
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