porculus on 1 Sep 2000 16:00:21 -0000 |
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Re: <nettime> Taking Pills |
> in the end, taking pills is like > putting a straightjacket on your > mind-body. it puts a limit to > thinking, to feeling, to emotion, > to inquiry. it stifles the fire, > the desire that drives discovery, > innovation, revolution, love. it > mummifies those who do not conform, > entombing them in their own worlds > of supposed fantasy. it sanctions > a class-war of the sane and normal > versus the dangerously insane. the > state is God, and the psychiatrist > is the parent. mommy-daddy-me. mind-body till ? to take neurotransmettor/spiritual adjuvant is also imagined a material deal is possible with the metaphysic, and how could be your matephysic, straightjacket on your mindbody could be a just an only a camisole chimique if you don't beleive such an idiocy of mind body, but others could assure some materials could be real support to sheer spiritual one. but what make ordinary and naturaly your brain as a sublimation of material or not is here not your technical question cause you speak about politic no ? good politic is alway a salvation engeeniring, but salvation ingeenering is always according to current standard : what about middle age ones ? an economy of salvation of soul, and what about the foucault's grand enfermement ? a relay economy by a nation-state : befor salvation of its soul which is kept as final purpose all bodies have duty to state, work, familly blabla so the duty of individual to preserve its usable integrity, its health. And soon rationalism will render to individual the only consensual rational positive salvation : to live the longer as possible. to take pills frighten not because the one who takes pill could be weak, but because the current salvation economy could be bad, and who sap surch a consensus is a treator, there is no admitted courage in treacherousness in any religion or metaphysic, even in hegel # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net