This piece of writing became impressed upon me in the strangest way. For the first couple of pages I wasn't following him very well, but then I started to see.
It was like a veil being slowly lifted and then I started to see quite clearly what he was getting at, and then I started to agree. It eerie how much this piece of writing applies to what's happening right now in the political arena of the world. There is the over abundance of imagery which leads to a meaninglessness, the loss of any reference point for the truth, the masking of and double masking, also the never ending parade of illusions until all is illusory, clearly we are lost in a house of mirrors.
We are victims of a sophisticated kind of doublespeak, as he says, "All the hypotheses of manipulation are reversible in an endless whirligig."
I feel as if we are all victims of this indeterminate discourse, and it's not a purposeful conspiracy as much as the nature of the game, "such collusions admirable knit together without their authors even knowing it..." The participants of this kind of conspiracy do their parts unconsciously.
It is inevitable.
I am fascinated by what he says of the presidents who must die, or pretend to, in order to reinvent the power. Also this idea that a simulated crime might cause a greater outrage than a real one, since the threatened domain is one of paradigmatic importance.
more later...
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