Corporeality

Corporeality

               One of the disturbing trends in recent years that perhaps is inevitable in capitalism after awhile is the anthropomorphism of the corporation. In other words we begin to think that Ronald McDonald is a real entity and not just a corporate shill meant to fool us. Before you laugh and think me a fool this concept has reached the actuality of argument before the supreme court.

And of course lesson number one in a constitutional law course is the court decides what it wants to do and then finds a way to do it – the penumbras, etc. The problem here is the right wing court decided last year that corporations were entities and therefore could give as much money as they wanted to political candidates, but now , this year, when it is a question of being sued the court wants to declare corporations are not entities. It’s a tough job when you’re a hypocrite – that’s why the suppression of freedom of speech is high on the agenda of any modern corporate sponsored state.

One of the rudest blow offs I ever received was at a conference on trends in criminal justice about twenty years ago. During a break between lectures I walked up to a female judge and asked her whether she felt that protections of the basic “inalienable rights” were being eroded. She assumed I was one of the many vocal “pro-life” advocates (which I am not) and and angrily defended a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion or not. Then she and her aide walked off briskly, leaving me more mystified then anything else.

Hence we can conclude I’d make a terrible lawyer since much of their task involves saying things comprehendible by judges – something I seem to have difficulty with.

That said, much of the written product of the Tamlinmediaco is a sometimes humorous, often serious hypothetical survival guide. As such we deal more with trends then specifics. To resort to metaphor part of the task is getting out of the way of the train and the other part is catching a ride, if that’s possible. This has been shaped by a lifetime of downward mobility. What small pleasures I now have in seeing the things that first effected my socio-economic group now occur to a wider spead of the population I don’t take much joy in.

Then again it does hearten one to at last see the understanding of what has happened reach the point of consensus. There was a long time , thirty years, that we refer to as the wasteland, when what might be called the urban industrial working class was taking it on the jaw and when we mentioned it we received only abuse, humiliation and the suggestion that we retrain, move, or simply were too stupid to pass muster. It was a cruel awakening to man’s indifference.

Or perhaps this is incomplete. The rich people had no use for employing us, but they were quite willing to F8ck the females and enter into sequential marriages, and various other arrangements. This is to say they quite enjoyed our poverty, much as the Normans saw nothing wrong in enslaving the Saxon males after 1066. The political class got in on that action as well - often not waiting for sloppy seconds but getting the fruit fresh off the vine.

                      Now things have changed, but nowhere near enough to rest easy. Therefore our task is to avoid and minimize the effects of the ruling class on our daily lives. Somewhat incredibly I am mostly supportive of President Obama, but I am not confident that the forces at work under the surface in America will not return as soon as he is gone. Plus the trends we must factor in are no longer limited to boundaries but now are global. The decimation has been worst in the US but it’s not the result of malevolence per se – it is the result of the technostates ability to justify and defend itself which is combined with an inability to engage in anything like self examination.

                   if the technostate determines the most cost effective way to grow something is to exterminate the human population nearby then that’s all that matters. As far as I am concerned the burden of proof suggesting this is not the case must remain on the side of the advocates of the technostate. This is not negotiable. This is a hard and fast rule. Such power must never again be ceded to machine intelligence.

Suffice to say though, like the judge who thought I was talking about abortion rights when if anything I was inquiring about euthanasia it is important that we get it correct when we speak oh the technostate. When Ronald Reagan spoke about big government he spoke about cutting people off social security, ending food stamps, public housing, and such when we speak of the technostate we mean a state where the decision making occurs beyond the level of human intervention, eg: at the level of neural networks.

And again neural nets, artificial intelligences, etc cannot be done away with but we can work to assure ourselves they serve our purposes and not their own. I can say this because of the basic line in the sand that we have to consider - robots are not living intelligences. If or if not souls are inventions of man they nevertheless provide a critical borderline between property, commodity and life.

The sacred is a fine and wonderful and needed thing, but when the sacred is artificially created via forced repetition, isolation and such it can be a dangerous weapon in the enslavement of beings.

To place men’s actions apart from the norm an within the zone of the sacred where they are beyond ordinary judgment and understanding is a bad idea. We in America have learned many times to our sorrow the reality that a battle between a human and an artificially created god can end only one way.

On the bright side though, once we reach a critical point where we have enough people understanding this we’ll be able to replace the dictates of the technostates with other, better ideas.

Thusfar as well the technostate has slept, it’s always slow to create laws because it perceives law entirely according to property and it’s slow to realize how fungible property actually is. The ties that bind us shall be of other materials then those seen by mortal or immortal eyes. I wax poetic but it must be done , for in that realm, the virtual state, which cannot be comprehended by machines and lives only in the heart, that the future awaits us, in the new frontier.

GRS

MAR1.2012

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