- “Many people -
lost in the trance of the Dream - think freedom is based
- upon the principles
of pure, unregulated
appetite, or what we experience
- daily as the duty
of choice. It
may come down to rather trivial options
-
between this or that shirt, or the mirage of freedom may actually be a
- form
of extortion: work or else. You
may – of course -- freely choose that
- “or else.” The passions
are offered up behind glass, spoken of by
nicely
- trained and pretty women, surrounded by more-or-less nicely
designed
- buildings, and no
one denies (publicly) that there is much to be done if
- any of those passions
are to be purchased. So
sensations are rendered
- static in direct service to the survival of The
Social Order. One may move
- up or up
or down the supporting wire like a mechanical monkey of course,
- and thus
imitate the wild ride of a
dimly rumored liberty, but that’s no more
- freedom than palsy is modern dance. What do the senses come
in contact
- with but shadows cast by ad agencies? The consumer tastes hot
love, smells
- wild abandon, hears
flaming revolution, but keeps his “position” for fear of
- losing his
musical chair to an unchained (and
younger) hunger for control.
- These ghouls rise out of the very act of
wanting. So it is best we merely
-
pretend to desire, and settle for renting.”
-
- —Nathan
Kraal, “The Sense Throttle”
-
-
"More than this, capitalism has taken over the most radical ideas and
- returned them safely to the people in the form of harmless ideologies such
- as socialism or communism until the only choice we are presented with is
- either the spectacle of
domination or the spectacle of opposition. Because
- of this advance in
capitalism, not only are those ideologies themselves
- redundant but also the theories and techniques of analysis from which they
- sprang.
Can any pleasure we are allowed to taste compare with the
- indescribable joy of casting aside every form of restraint
and breaking
- "every conceivable law?