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From Adbusters #106: Mental Breakdown of a Nation
OLIVER ATKINS
Even Henry Kissinger in his latest book, On China, seems to have grasped something that America has yet to understand – the battle of empire is a battle of memes.
Ideologies. Strategies. Fundamentals of organization in war, economy and peace are weaved into the fabric of culture. In China, the game of weiqi is telling of a broader civilizational strategy. Rooted in Confucian ideals of collectivity and Sun Tzu’s ideals of combat, the basic premise of weiqi is to encircle the enemy. By placing identical stones on the board, one piece at a time, the winning strategy is to avoid open strikes and to frustrate the enemy, leaving no option other than surrender … all without ever throwing a stone.
America has long approached the world from an opposing ideal, the philosophy of chess, Kissinger says. This game of rank and class is based on the idea of an iconic singular battle, foreshadowed by scrappy exchanges and incisive strikes.
The American Revolution was a decisive event, a declaration, a roused militia and a singular victory conceived in the mind of Washington. China’s myth, however, is rooted in Mao’s Long March ndash; a 12,000 km grueling trek across the country in the midst of a three-decade civil war culminating in total surrender of the enemy in 1949.
America has been so obsessed with conflict that they’ve failed to realize the multitude of encirclement around them. The noose is tightening but still they seek to destroy the Gordian Knot rather than maneuver a way out. “The disregard of Master Sun’s precepts was importantly responsible for America’s frustration in its recent Asian Wars…” Kissinger writes. And what is the core of those precepts?
“Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.” – Sun Tzu
Já tem alguns dias que estou para escrever sobre To This Day, uma animação de quase oito minutos que mobilizou 86 artistas de diversos países, inclusive Brasil. O projeto toma por base o poema do artista canadense Shane Koyczan para falar sobre o duradouro impacto do bullying na vida das vítimas. O esforço colaborativo liderado pelo estúdio Giant Ant tem por objetivo conscientizar a comunidade e combater o problema, divulgando canais de apoio e ferramentas para ajudar pais e professores nesta batalha.
A partir de agora, começa uma nova etapa deste projeto, iniciada há mais de dois meses, quando a Giant Ant convocou voluntários dispostos a criar segmentos de 20 segundos para a animação. Shane convida todos a compartilharem a mensagem, especialmente com vítimas de bullying. Uma ideia bastante válida, com um resultado digno.
Para ler o poema na íntegra, é só clicar aqui.
Post originalmente publicado no Brainstorm #9
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From Adbusters #106: Mental Breakdown of a Nation
In Britain there are no human beings or citizens, no.
There are live money beings.
The population allows this to happen. They allow the state to tax them very hard and no real protest happens. They seem to like it, or they are just under the spell of a very organized propaganda. After all it is for the common good.
Let’s all in Britain scream in one united voice that we want a very expansive private educational system perpetuating social walls. Here is another idea: why not, instead of letting older generations freeze in the winter, the banker boy just shoots them all. It would be more dignified. He could even privatize this and get some tax out of it.
Britain is heading towards an intellectual black hole.
In Britain there is no social critique or artist that inflames the masses.
There is no one to sing “No future.”
Britain is a master case study to understand how ideology and propaganda work in a free market.
This is Britain.
Now put this poster up
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