{"id":192130,"date":"2019-07-25T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192130"},"modified":"2019-07-29T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:44:10","slug":"pornographic-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192130","title":{"rendered":"Pornographic Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linh Dinh \u2013 The Unz Review July 24, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Democratic National Convention 2012. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

To represent anything is to reduce and deform it, obviously, for even Leonardo\u2019s Mona Lisa is but a stick figure compared to the witty, voluptuous and redolent broad, whose repartees, smiles, jokes and burps, from moment to moment, can only increase her charm and terror, and that\u2019s why man never allowed himself to be engulfed by any medium, be it oil painting, music or literature. After the most satisfying page, he still looked up and walked outside. Traveling vast distances, Chekov discovered heaven in Ceylon and hell in Sakhalin, and Flaubert was only being reductive when he goofed, \u201cThe one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.\u201d He, too, had plenty of lust for the actual.<\/h5>\n
Well, a perpetual orgy is certainly here, but it has nothing to do with literature, or even literacy, and it\u2019s not voluntary. If pornography can be understood as a lurid usurpation of the real, then we\u2019re watching an endless pornographic movie. Most democratically, we\u2019re all trapped in this foul theater. An orgy of the virtual has taken over every aspect of our lives.<\/h5>\n
Pornography multiplies frequency, duration, angles, positions and sexual partners, an endless and eternal sexual buffet, except that none of it is really happening. Similarly, American democracy gives the appearance of boundless participation by all citizens, for they can\u2019t just vote in caucuses and elections, but cheer at conventions, march in protest, write letters to newspapers, comment on the internet and follow, blow by blow, the serial mud wrestling between opposing politicians. Pissed, they can freely curse Bush, Obama or Trump without fearing a midnight knock on the door. Alas, none of their \u201cpolitical activities\u201d actually matters, for Americans don\u2019t influence their government\u2019s policies, much less decide them. It\u2019s all an elaborate spectacle to make each chump think he\u2019s somehow a player, in on the action, when he\u2019s actually all alone, in the dark, to beat his own meat, yet again.<\/h5>\n
He has railroaded, premasticated opinions on everything, but without the means to act on any of it. Only his impotence is real.<\/h5>\n
It\u2019s all good. Groomed by the culture, his preteen daughter fancies herself a pornographic starlet. His reeducated son is convinced his assigned manhood is beyond toxic, and must be chopped off at the first opportunity. His transitioning wife can\u2019t wait to fuck him up the ass.<\/h5>\n
Castrated, he may still \u201crebel\u201d in sanctioned ways, and none does this more aggressively than the theatrically strident \u201cradical,\u201d who\u2019s most conformist, paradoxically, although there\u2019s a long history of this.<\/h5>\n
With his red flag, black uniform and covered face, this specimen is a cookie cutter puppet that\u2019s jerked by a totalitarian master, the very state he thinks he\u2019s resisting. Obediently correct, the American radical divides and attacks the masses. Happily domineered, he demands that everyone else becomes as shackled as he is, and since this will never happen, he\u2019s eternally enraged.<\/h5>\n
His zealotry is not just abject, but dangerous, for he makes an ideal foot soldier for state or deep state-sponsored street violence, against those who should be his allies. Notice how the solidarity of the 99% is no longer evoked by anybody.<\/h5>\n
\"\"<\/a>The Occupy<\/a><\/span> movement targeted Wall Street, and not the White House, Capitol Hill or Pentagon, so they fingered who really run this country, but they made several crucial mistakes, and the worst was to advertise their intention way ahead of time through social media. That\u2019s why hundreds of cops were there to block off Wall Street, forcing protestors to move to Zuccotti Park<\/span><\/a>, and this became the model for the rest of the countries. Occupy Wall Street became a series of temporary tent cities.<\/h5>\n
I visited Zuccotti Park repeatedly and eight other Occupy camps. In Raleigh, I found them squatting on an empty lot off downtown, with the protesting that day a karaoke session at a nearby bar. \u201cWe\u2019ll sing John Lennon\u2019s \u201cImagine,\u201d you know, songs like that,\u201d a middle-aged soccer mom explained. In New York, there was a chirpy ditz with a sign, \u201cREVOLUTION IS FUN<\/span><\/a>.\u201d Worse, there was even \u201cLIBERATE IRAN,\u201d but there was advocacy for every cause under the sun, animal rights, free Falun Gong, on and on. A pudgy, dazed looking dude tried to enlist people into his \u201cFART SMELLER<\/span><\/a> MOVEMENT.\u201d A young woman stripped down to her panties<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n
Government agents defused the threat by diffusing its message, but the state got plenty of help from clueless, narcissistic clowns who just had to raise their special voice, until hardly anyone knew what the mess was about, and it was a stinking mess. Occupy Philly became an open air toilet around City Hall. \u201cDEMAND NOTHING! OCCUPY EVERYTHING!\u201d<\/h5>\n
Deploying all sorts of violence, they prop up Gandhi and Martin Luther King, after they\u2019ve shot him in the head, and even Obama preached nonviolent resistance between orders of drone strikes. America\u2019s suavest prez ever even joked about it, \u201cThe Jonas Brothers are here; they\u2019re out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans. But boys, don\u2019t get any ideas. I have two words for you, \u2018predator drones.\u2019 You will never see it coming.\u201d<\/h5>\n
They sure will, though. America\u2019s 17 intelligence agencies will make sure no serious domestic rebellion can develop, and no coup d\u2019\u00e9tat hatched, but even if there\u2019s a rogue pilot, say, one who\u2019s not afraid to die to make a statement, what should he bomb? Certainly not the Pentagon, for only the Pentagon or its master can send a missile through its wall.<\/h5>\n
Even columns of tanks converging on the White House won\u2019t change anything.<\/h5>\n
Any revolution or coup will have to contend with 1.3 million active soldiers, not to mention how many robots and drones? Realizing its mercenaries aren\u2019t all that, the state is increasingly relying on fearless, sleepless machines, and it\u2019s demoralizing to realize the best you can do is break their expensive toys, while they can mangle or kill you while inflicting much pain, or force you to witness your screaming comrade\u2019s last moment. Also, shot drones don\u2019t leave behind the devastatingly bereaved. It takes an army to fight one, and most Americans can\u2019t even organize a bowling team, remember. With guerrilla actions, they can certainly carve out liberated zones, however, so there\u2019s your glimmer of hope.<\/h5>\n
Occupy<\/span><\/a> was no revolution, but its initial aim of disrupting a key operation of the state was the right idea, for you must hurt your enemy, if only for a day. Imagine Wall Street or nearby Goldman Sachs in flames! This goal was akin to puncturing a pipeline, blowing up an important bridge or assassinating a crucial figure. In America, however, there\u2019s no visible target who\u2019s actually worth killing, for none is indispensable to the state\u2019s criminal function. Those out in the open are just actors. In laying out a much ballyhooed puppet\u2019s mangled cadaver, all you\u2019ll achieve is a symbolic goal, but perhaps it\u2019s worth it after all, for all traitors must pay, and it may even inspire a real revolt.<\/h5>\n
Revolution sounds cool because it implies a terrible awakening of the masses, to impose their will, exact justice and start a new paradigm, but most revolutions are fake, with many orchestrated by another elite or triggered by a foreign power. Moreover, Americans are too divided and atomized to rebel as a people, so the best you can hope for is to regain independence, freedom and sanity for your state, region or maybe just town.<\/h5>\n
The first step is to stop thinking of yourself as an American, for there\u2019s no America left to save, much less \u201cmake great again,\u201d and there are no Americans left either, for if anybody can be a defacto American just by showing up, then the concept is meaningless. That\u2019s like me landing in Tel Aviv tomorrow and declaring I\u2019m a Jew.<\/h5>\n
Your average American hardly has a hometown, just a homepage, and his neighbors are the anonymous, pseudonymous, hasbarists and trolls he compulsively chats with. If you don\u2019t even belong to your neighborhood, how are you the citizen of any nation?<\/h5>\n
To reclaim your street, you must regain your mind, but the porn has gotten so damn good, why would anyone want to leave PornHub, Chaturbate or Illusory Participation, USA?<\/h5>\n
I was born in 1963, a year of many coup d\u2019\u00e9tats, and you may remember the one in South Vietnam, Guatemala, Ecuador, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Benin, Togo, Iraq or Syria, which actually witnessed two. The most significant happened right in the US of A, however, and like most, it was certainly an inside job.<\/h5>\n
Like Ngo Dinh Diem, John F. Kennedy wasn\u2019t a good enough puppet, so he had to be expertly brained. Even if Lyndon Johnson wasn\u2019t in on the plot, he served them faithfully afterwards, as has every American president since. They\u2019ve all gotten the message. Similarly, it only takes one academic to be defenestrated from the ivory tower for the rest to toe the line. Americans live in a cowed country. Home of the brave my ass!<\/h5>\n
\"\"<\/a>Protesting their government, thousands of Americans became symbolically homeless<\/a><\/span>, but their society has only sunk further, with destitution, despair and anger rapidly increasing. As the rank of those who must sleep and defecate outside constantly swells, Washington still doesn\u2019t give a shit, but why should it? They\u2019re getting theirs.<\/h5>\n
Inside the Beltway may be a swamp, but it\u2019s a gilded one, designed for the most arrogant and smug. Outside, the quicksand ocean keeps on devouring.<\/h5>\n
Game over, I heave these toss away lines during garbage time, but enough of this, for I must return to my daily tons of garbage<\/span><\/a>. The future is indeed plastic. From the end of the world, I watch various endings.<\/h5>\n
Linh Dinh\u2019s<\/em><\/strong> latest book is <\/em>Postcards from the End of America<\/span><\/em><\/a>. He maintains a regularly updated photo blog<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n

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