Becoming-animal, becoming-imperceptible
My idea of a political party is one which requires everyone to wear a hooded mask at party events and meetings.
The purpose of the masking is a practical one: it amounts to protection. The party will be for individuals of radical belief only. A jihadist is in; or rather, the individual who believes in the jihad is in, as is he or she who has radically committed to Libertarianism or Vegetarianism. A believer and not an observer or critic; one cannot be an apologist and belong to the party (thus there will be no conservatives in the literal sense).
There need be no rule to prohibit the disclosure of one's belief, but secrecy will be of the utmost concern. Thus, the masquerade. A party in which both Zionist and jihadist are counted will be guided by a strategy of neither Zionism nor jihad. The jihadist speaks his belief at the forfeiture of his life: now the Zionist knows whom he must kill. And likewise for each member of the party. The strategy of such a mass would evolve (in the Darwinian way) towards universalism. Likely there would be no oral communication. Utterly difficult to imagine. Unmasking at the expense of one's life: a politics antithetical to that of liberalism.
The purpose of the masking is a practical one: it amounts to protection. The party will be for individuals of radical belief only. A jihadist is in; or rather, the individual who believes in the jihad is in, as is he or she who has radically committed to Libertarianism or Vegetarianism. A believer and not an observer or critic; one cannot be an apologist and belong to the party (thus there will be no conservatives in the literal sense).
There need be no rule to prohibit the disclosure of one's belief, but secrecy will be of the utmost concern. Thus, the masquerade. A party in which both Zionist and jihadist are counted will be guided by a strategy of neither Zionism nor jihad. The jihadist speaks his belief at the forfeiture of his life: now the Zionist knows whom he must kill. And likewise for each member of the party. The strategy of such a mass would evolve (in the Darwinian way) towards universalism. Likely there would be no oral communication. Utterly difficult to imagine. Unmasking at the expense of one's life: a politics antithetical to that of liberalism.
posted by danny marcus at 12:50 AM
3 Comments:
Truly a BwO...Will the masks necessarily be walrus masks? I believe it would be more difficult to form our planes of consistency. The walrus is allready too entangled in the signification of faciality. We will wear wasp masks, and live by orchids!
A note: One forfeits life only at the logical extreme. At a lesser magnitude, one forfeits membership by unmasking, for the law which governs the being-counted of the party is one's radical (unspeakable) belief, one's indiscernibility (a vow of silence).
I like this a lot, Kushakov. Kundera-esque. It works well for the jihadist and the zionist, no doubt. But as for me (and you and you and you): we hate parties with strangers, and we hate masks.
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