Monday, January 10, 2011

Sheeple in a Fog

It won't go far enough to ban hateful rhetoric. We must ban rhetoric altogher. We must unite in a concerted effort to eradicate the expression of thoughts, opinions, and sentiments in language. We must embrace an unmediated primitivism through which our animal consciousness can once again reassert its preverbal, non-apprehending interaction with the natural world, the very structure of thought freed from the tyranny of verbalism. We must overthrow symbolic thought and reason, experienceing that-which-is solely as its is-in-itselfness. Only through the extirpation of the perversion of narrative self-consciousness can we triumph over hate, achieving a beatific, edenic transcendence whereby we are free to pass into pre-post-human supramorality, to lead us through to a heaven, starless and fatherless, a dark water.

33 comments:

Anonymous said...

Finally, someone more radical than Zerzan.

lucid said...

So in other words, check your KAnt at the door...

mushr00m said...

...! %@-Dollars!

Jim Wetzel said...

You're unscannable, and yer shit's all fucked up, and ya talk like a fag! Go 'way! 'Batin'!!!

David Chappell said...

Ug ug uug

2prim4u said...

Slippery slope, Ioz. Wouldn't be long before is-in-itselfness got nonverbally fingered for the decimation of some comet strike or solar flare or slipping on some unshoveled shard of Eden and we'd have to ban post-narrative unmediated existence and THEN where'd we be, huh?

NutellaonToast said...

You fucking anarchists. You always focus on the abd things that rhetoric entails but you never pay attention to the millions of wonders it careful crafted arguments bring to our lives.

I mean, if you like a lack of written words so much, why don't you move to prehistoric Somalia?

Ethan said...

Haha, you sound like that guy they're all talking about that Loughner liked who says the government is controlling us through grammar. IRONIC.

Anonymous said...

Yes yes yes !

And I have the perfect example of a rhetoric-free statement:

"Steal this bumpersticker."

Professor Coldheart said...

The Empire never ended.

Montag said...

Anonymous said...

who is sugesting "banning rehtoric" of any kind? this post is strawman tantrum. maybe we should just legalize murder, so that the KKK have exactly the same rights and powers as the state.

Anonymous said...

@Jim Wetzel

your not a "reactionary utopian" your just a petitbourgeouise dickhead that thinks fort wayne is a great place to "nestle"

IOZ said...

4:10 is well on the way to realizing the proposition of this post. And people accuse my philosophy of lacking tangible policies!

Anonymous said...

@4:29

I get the point of the post. I agree with the point of the post, all speech must be protected. How does that proposition negate the proposition that "speech" is not without consequence. The untopian libertarian i called dickhead might want to fight it out with a left Communist mow. That is my proposition, which proves BTW that speech 1. may be directed with the intent to incite an action(whether or not it acheives that purpose) and 2. Speech does not exist independently of the rest of the universe.

IOZ said...

And pull the trigger until it goes click.

mistah charley, ph.d. said...

"What is government if words have no meaning?" — the question Jared Loughner asked Gabrielle Giffords at a "Congress in Your Corner" event in 2007. He was dissatisfied with her response, or lack of it, and events went forward from there.

This reminds me of the Zen exchange (described as an autobiographical event in Jacob Needleman's book What is God?:

Student: What is the self?
Teacher: Who's asking the question?

May the Creative Forces of the Universe have mercy on our souls, if any.

Anonymous said...

@IOZ @ 4:41

thats the idea, yeah.

Anonymous said...

@IOZ @ 4:41

thats the idea, yeah.

la Rana said...

obviously, you're not a golfer

Anonymous said...

Do you really fail to grasp the distinction between laws and norms?

la Rana said...

ooooohh, do tell....

IOZ said...

The Norms were my favorite thing about Babylon 5.

fish said...

If you kill all the golfers, who's going to play golf?

davidly said...

Whenever I lay my hands on laws and norms I can't get the distinction off of me for weeks.

I, for one, welcome Herrn Monsier's new plan. Where can I leave my thumbprints?

Ashley said...

I hereby swear not to shoot you should you run for, or somehow attain, elected office, IOZ.

This promise may be hard to keep as I don't know your actual name. Please do give me a sign via mass media coded message. I'm waiting. Patiently. For now.

Dr. Wilhelm said...

Can you come over to my house and show me how to use this surrender into a wordless dimension of our sensorial and omni-participatory presencing mode of reciprocity the as a transrational eigentlichkeit thing?

Anonymous said...

I'm all in!

Anonymous said...

IOZ getting all Heidegerrian and Derridean on our asses! No kidding! Check out the Heidegger of Poetry, Language and Thought. And Derrida's whole thing about "philosophy before philosophy" and before the word!

Fuck Keith Olberman!

NutellaonToast said...

when a man kills within the scope of the law.... WELL OKIE DOKIE... but talkin bout killin in the scope of the norms? HOW DARE YA???

zencomix said...

"If you kill all the golfers, who's going to play golf?"

The caddies!

Anonymous said...

All of Chomsky's work for naught.

Anonymous said...

Wasn't that the plot in Snowcrash?