I feel that many bloggers may lack the mental self-discipline needed to ignore that whole Occupy Melbourne thing.
Nah, just fucking with you. I'm all over that shit:
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PART I: COLD ANALYTICAL REASONING
I know, I know, but don't worry crew, I'm gonna talk you through that whole Occupy Melbourne thing, in the only way I know how: with some smug poetry and confusing art.
That's OK, no need to thank me.
KEEP THAT LINE MOVING!
[notes towards an investigation.]
also, a poem.
do this:
keep public ignorant
to get this:
less resistance
do this:
limit access to control points
to get this:
program simplicity
do this:
create preoccupations
to get this:
lowered defences
do this:
give more credit
to get this:
more self-indulgence
more data
do this:
social conformity
to get this:
social isolation
do this:
accelerate timing
to get this:
less data shift and blurring
do this:
collapse currency
to get this:
destroy people's faith in money
PART II: BASED ON A TRUE STORY
If oppression emanates from the power of that which is seen, then logic might compel us to investigate the possibility that resistance could ally itself with the power of that which is unseen. The unseen is not necessarily the invisible or the disappeared. It can be seen and might be seen. It is not yet seen—or it is deliberately hidden. It reserves the right to re-appear, or to escape from representation. This hermetic ambiguity shapes its tactical movement; to use a military metaphor, it practices guerrilla techniques of "primitive war" against those of "classical war", refusing confrontation on unequal terms, melting into the generalized resistance of the excluded, occupying cracks in the strategic monolith of control, refusing the monopoly of violence to power, etc.
["Violence" here also signifies imagistic or conceptual violence.] In effect it opposes strategy [ideology] with tactics that cannot be strategically bound or ideologically fixed. It might be said that consciousness "alone" does not play as vital a role in this as certain other factors. ["Freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill".] For example, there is an aspect of the unseen that involves no effort, but consists simply in the experience of places that remain unknown, times that are not marked.
The Unseen Obelisk - Hakim Bey
PART III: NEVER REALLY SLEEP
And Occupy Melbourne looks like this:
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And sometimes it feels like this:
But sometimes it's so damn amazing I just stand there and look around, smiling.
Try to dig what I'm trying to lay down:
1] NEVER REALLY SLEEP
2] You Must Have An Enemy #4: Meet The New War, Same As The Old War
3] Words Are Pictures #3: Medley Of Spirituals