Polemos - Universal Proscription
June 7th, 2006, search relatedRelated posts :: American Proscription and 911 :: Polemos - Universal Proscription :: American Proscription and 911 :: Principles of a Universal Proscription
Tags: modern, ontology, polemos and Proscription
On 07/06/2006, at 9:05 PM, Anthony Crifasi wrote:
> Your silly little proscription speaks for someone trying to misportray
> anti-anti-Americanism as merely dismissive by ripping accusations
> from the
> specific contexts in which they were originally applied, which is
> your usual
> m.o., and therefore hardly surprising.
Okay so how about we universalize them then? This draft list is just an abstraction anyways, and an outline of a possible methodology for a polemics of propaganda, a phenomenology of polemical truth or a ‘how-to’ for a polemics of modernity if you like.
From the perspective of power it seems truth is merely something utilitarian, effective or ineffective in the maintenance and growth of power. It’s very Darwinian really, or Roman, truth belongs to the most profitable ideology as it brings the mass of believers along with it. Any truth that has been proscribed is a threat to that belief so is subjected to polemics to be either assimilated or banished into exile and silenced. It doesn’t seem to matter what the belief is about either, whether religious or secular, everything is subject to polemos. Here’s one of my favourite Heraclitus proclamations:
Polemos is lord of all things;
it has shown some to be gods and some mortals,
it has made some slaves and others free. . . .
Everything originates in its strife . . . . Strife is justice;
and all things both come to pass and perish through strife.
Anyways, I’d like to thank you both for your contribution so far and here’s the last working draft along with a very rough Google translation for our native German speakers, any comments/edits are welcome.
Preliminary Draft of the Principles of a Universal Proscription
Or a code of practice for the self-reflexivity of modern polemos
1. Denigrate and dismiss
- Opposing views are flat earth science
- Opponents suffer psychiatric disturbances
2. Dismiss the old guard
3. Politicization of science
4. Reject scientific authority
5. Anti-intellectualism
6. Claim intellectual superiority
7. Enemy succour
8. Radicalize opposition
9. War crimes are liberation from tyranny
10. Dismiss government criminality
11. Maintain any belief in freedom
12. Relativize and distract
13. Demand defence and distract
14. Deny censorship
15. Discount what cannot be denied
16. Befriend and distract
17. Repeat cycle
Grobentwurf der Grundregeln einer Universalbeschränkung
Oder der allgemeinen Vorschrift für den Selbst-reflexivity der modernen polemos
1. Verunglimpfen und entlassen
- Entgegensetzende Ansichten sind flache Geowissenschaft
- Konkurrenten erleiden psychiatrische Störungen
2. Den alten Schutz entlassen
3. Politisierung der Wissenschaft
4. Ausschußwissenschaftliche Berechtigung
5. Anti-intellectualism
6. Anspruch Intellektuellüberlegenheit
7. Feindliches succour
8. Radicalize Opposition
9. Kriegsverbrechen sind Befreiung von der Tyrannei
10. Regierung Kriminalität entlassen
11. Jeden möglichen Glauben an Freiheit beibehalten
12. Relativize und lenken ab
13. Verteidigung verlangen und ablenken
14. Zensur verweigern
15. Diskontieren, was nicht verweigert werden kann
16. Befreunden und ablenken
17. Zyklus wiederholen
Cheers,
Malcolm
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Dr Malcolm Riddoch
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