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A slow suicide called life and state sanctioned. It is the condition of the carceral society. Paranoia has become a proper state of mind. And there's a despot around the corner. Omnipresent surveillance. Society of control. The cattle are guided by passageways like electrons in a closed circuit to the killing floor. Exchange market value of currency against convenience. The stock that won't drop. However, liberty and security are not interchangeable in a war machine that never stops.
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Sep 22, 2017
Sep 22, 2017 at 1:25 AM UTC
Two Masters
A slow suicide called life and state sanctioned. It is the condition of the carceral society. Paranoia has become a proper state of mind. And there's a despot around the corner. Omnipresent surveillance. Society of control. The cattle are guided by passageways like electrons in a closed circuit to the killing floor. Exchange market value of currency against convenience. The stock that won't drop. However, liberty and security are not interchangeable in a war machine that never stops.
The first line is borrowed from Nietzcshe's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". The second line is inspired by Jean Beadrillard ("Simulacra and Simulation"). "Societies of Control" is a concept of Gilles Deleuze.
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Sep 22, 2017
Sep 22, 2017 at 1:25 AM UTC
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