In romaneste aici

I have seen for the third time “Terrorized into Being Consumers” documentary. The first time was at a party arranged by some ecologist booby girls with superstar selfesteem. Such kind of documentary is perfect for reach spoilt kids that lost their mother touch as they grew up. The reach booby girls are the perfect target for such a documentary. Seeing it one gets the impression that it is a collage of reactions of 2 people arguing one another. After you see the whole documentary is clear that inconsistency and contradiction of ideas is not a problem for them. It is easy to see that the people who made this documentary are not very interested about the problems of second and third world but they just want more wealth and gratitude than the strongest ones just because they are used with a world that shapes under their wishes. The problem of such eccentrics is their demand that the world should change after their “original” taste. The result would certain be a much uglier then today society. The facts and the images drastically contradict each other at some certain moments in this film. But does it matter for simple-minded superstar dreamer?

It is almost pointless to show up the solutions that this documentary proposes for improving society. I don’t know if the author(s) realize that inside of it are (at least) three different and contradictory one another solutions for that. First one is that of Fidel Castro &co. with equality in sharing the goods, with what in Romania happened in 60-s as “nationalization” and later with “rationalization”. The second one is the destruction of technology and getting back to primitive way of life. The third one is French Revolution reloaded, the violence.


Consumerism versus communism

I will never be a fan of consumerism in the way it is today, but it looks really good comparing to communism poverty. None tell me about “rationalization of products” unless they experienced themselves for a long period, when money without good connections was just pieces of collections. In Romania today are many communist nostalgic people but they didn’t experienced consumerism because still live under the limit of poverty. It is easy for somebody to admire totalitarian communist austerity when live most of the time in wealth. But when experience poverty as a child for a long time things are more difficult. Do these people know what means not to be able to buy some chocolate when the store was empty? Do they know how is playing with naked feet and staying hurt for a week when the shoes are getting broken after 2 weeks since buying? Do they know how it feels to be really really pushed on in school and wish you were dead? Do they know how it feels when the authorities come once in several years and steal everything from your house because your grandpa used to have unofficial political ideas? Etc. These days things like that happen in capitalist countries also sometimes but at least one could quit, one could choose an easier job, one could say just NO. Well, in communist totalitarianism one could be transformed into classical slave just like that and watched by the soldiers when you are working. If they would get bored then could take you as a target and get rid of you as simple as it get. The solutions of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez are false.
I have my own doubts about such military men as Che Guevara or Fidel Castro. They have no right to talk about contemporary society as long as they were using guns. No matter what was the cause, if they choose to be murderers as soldiers then they went back in time and lost the contemporary mind. It is almost unbelievable the nerve Fidel Castro has when talks about humanity as a “big family” but dressed in military uniform. I wander what are guns for? Are they, by any chance, good for climbing the social positions by force he keeps talking about? Are they meant to sustain and maintain the world wide family bounds, right? How nice of it…
Fidel Castro and others say that the problem of capitalist society is unequal distribution of wealth. Well, as others in response to that that I prefer a decent way of living than a “equal” distribution of poverty as it is the system he build in his own country.
Fidel Castro’s speech is specific to communist totalitarianism with its big lies. These people don’t stop talking about “better world” but hate competition and uses a monopoly system in their country. They talk about “better” and do not realize that it is just this “better” and “more” propaganda that makes capitalist slaves die on the corporation battlefield. How can a people like Fidel Castro fight against corporatism with corporatist ideas? This documentary does not seem to realize such contradiction. Later in it the austere way of life is encouraged and appreciated. For Christ sick: how is possible to want a better world but still to want a life full of restrictions? Is not there the meaning of better world related to more freedom and to breaking the restrictions in living and thinking? On the contrary, an austere way of life they preach is related to Dark Edges. Is it so hard to realize that? But don’t worry; the documentary mocks at Fidel Castro also. At the minute of 39 the Fidel Castro’s voice is replaced with that pathetic slave of Microsoft that screams like hell of joy “I love this company”. Excuse me? Is it me or in this point the documentary turn back against Fidel Castro? What about his sayings from beginning of the film? Does it look a little bit senseless? Just in case if it would really matters for such documentary…
For me is clear as daylight. I prefer having G. Bush as president and live in USA then having presidents as Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Putin or Basescu. It is not the best option I have in mind but it is better than of these ones. Bush seems really kind among these halfdictators. The humanist principles they keep talking about are more damaged by their actions then those made by Bush.


The difference between contemporary capitalism state manipulation and the classical state terrorism


I believe that the problem of contemporary people is that the politicians can’t keep up with social development. The common people are not helped but stolen by the contemporary political system. The work of common people are stolen by no shame by some artificial institutions, secrete (un)services, army and still existing wild education into education system.
The common people soul mutilation is basically different from that one of terrorism of classical state or by today rebel passéists. This difference is not so radical but it is still a difference based on continuity. It means that the manipulation is continuing the former terrorism of classical system. The manipulation is not possible without former guns threaten. The contemporary worker would not accept the story about working hard and getting rich if its predecessors had not been pushed by armies for centuries. In order to have manipulation today one should had slavery yesterday. The blood of such worker is infected by slavery. Such a worker accepts slavery as a form of salvation from death. Working hard for seems the way to survive for such a person. The liberty gives anxiety to the slave and that is why s/he prefers working hard than doing nothing. For such a result one needs thousands of years of guns threaten. If one takes away this background then takes away the contemporary slave. The primitive laziness is immune to contemporary slavery manipulation just because this genealogic background of “education” is missing. The contemporary aristocrat and bohemian mentalities is also immune to manipulation and usually make fun of it.
Here is the difference between original terrorism used by classical social system under the guns threaten and the “human rights” contemporary society manipulation. In primitive and classical society one could be transformed into slave no matter if its name might be Plato. Somebody just put the gun into your face and force you to become a slave. You have no choice. Today one has the choice to say “No”. Of course for the “professional slave” that choice means nothing because that person culture prevent (s)he from choosing something else then being a slave; the slavery is the only way of surviving as it always was for its predecessors. But the manipulation is not terrorism. The difference must be shown up. I am convinced that the people who perceive manipulation as terrorism are some people that can hear inside of their soul the slavery’s voice. Inside of them are a bohemian and a slave voice that struggle one another. The anxiety is projected outside under the pattern pointed out by psychoanalysis about sexual pulsion.


Primitive passéism: a wrong way


Sharing the goods to everybody as the documentary says at a certain moment is impossible. Such“equality” was not possible even at the beginning of communism. No other edges knew it. But some people work really hard for their goods and are not fair to give up some of them to somebody else who rests and don’t produce anything in return. Only future technology has the power to make it happen some day by working by itself instead of human work. None should expect that the Occident slave should now sustain the third world also and should be exploited by primitive people after sustaining a lot of social parasites inside of capitalist civilization that mutilate her/him for centuries. It is not fair.

Going back to “stone age” preached now by John Zerzan is an old idea. The most well known thinker that sustained such an idea was J.J. Rousseau, the philosopher who was admired by entire humanist culture for his utopian visions. But the primitive passéists are full of contradictions. In this case they call “assassins” the police men in order to show their inhumanness and primitivism. They use a part of modern culture by doing this and on the other hand still claim the purity of primitive culture. Here one could see the ambivalence of judging primitive culture as negative (“Policemen assassins”) and positive by their inner passéism. How can such people live in primitive society if they miss their “mom” at a first confrontation with primitive facts? I think they do not really understand what primitive society is in fact. That is because they spend most of their time thinking of reach people and getting them down and taking their place. Very few of them know in deed what primitive culture and civilization means.


NO to violence. The change should be made democratically and peacefully

The solution is not violence as John Zerzan let us believe at the end of documentary (min. 45). On the contrary, the violence turns us back in history with several centuries in conquests wars age. I strongly believe that modern society has inner mechanisms of development and feedback. Today’s parasites learn the lesson of history and will don anything to prevent a second French Revolution. The problem is the majority that still buys politicians/secret services/media lies. The system goes on due to such credulity. Here we have to change. There are media consumers that must be convince that most of the people that get on the streets and protest against G8 dos not want getting back to primitivism and are not “The axis of evil”. Until they are not convinced everything is in van. That is democracy! As long as the majority believes in the system there is nothing to be done but trying to convince them.
Using violence will never be favorable to common people. Violence is a lost cause from the start for slaves. They do not know how to organize and defend themselves. The taste of ruler lies only in the blood of their masters. Their elegant gestures contain the worrier calling. The predecessors of masters were such worriers and won the wars when slave’s predecessors lost it. Common people will never win this war even they might win a battle. French Revolution is just a drop into the Ocean. Billions of slaves were killed during history in exchange for the head of a king.


The contemporary slave is not ready for liberty

Unfortunately there are too many contemporary slaves that cannot get away with freedom just like Plato’s cave myth. The liberty makes them deeply depressive. They are really afraid of this and just do not want it. The work is their dirty conscience refugee. On the other hand many of rebels are some kind of liberated slaves themselves and just want to revenge on those wealthy/powerful for the sufferance of their predecessors.
Unfortunately there are too many contemporary slaves that cannot get away with freedom just like Plato’s cave myth. The liberty makes them deeply depressive. They are really afraid of this and just do not want it. The work is their dirty conscience refugee. On the other hand many of rebels are some kind of liberated slaves themselves and just want to revenge on those wealthy/powerful for the sufferance of their predecessors.


Watch the manipulation of the antipoliticianist movement image!


The violence is a reality of primitive and classical society; using it means getting back to such deep layers of human civilization scale. Unfortunately the most people that are against politicians and the system just go back and temperate their criticism when in contact with passeist avengers. I for one do not agree with goods destruction on the street and do not want to be a part of such manifestation. But the media under the command of secret (de)services shows all the protesters in the light of those who destroy community goods. It is a very agile manipulation act of the system in order show the antipoliticianist movement in a bad shape. The passéist protesters are a minority. Most of them just show their opposition against system and nothing more. For the social parasites it is very hard to combat these people ideas. The politicians’ reasons could be seen from distance as infected by personal interests. So the only solution for this situation is making a bad image, a devilish image. It is clear that authorities exaggerate in their reaction and infiltrate agents among the people for creating chaos. The secret services agents are working in media and they will manipulate the information so that the home consumers will only see live broadcasts with “anarchists” that destroy everything they touch. Such a media spectator will definitely forget about antipoliticianist ideas and will concern about those vagabonds that might threaten their live. In this spectator mind will take shape the image of wild primitive society with the low of the strongest and with the lazy people that just want things and do not give anything in return. For a thousandth time the people’s anger is cooled down with the perspective of war. Here is a very ingenious way that (repressive) authorities with the help of the media manage to prevent some very sensible ideas from getting into people’s ears and eyes. That is very important to stop the violence and destruction and rest of the people will get more rights from the desperate for loosing their social position politicians.


Stupid ideas, attitudes and expressions


As for stupid things in this documentary I have noticed that multimillionaire guy that suddenly rediscovers simple life after being millionaire for some time. Story itself is nonsense because social mutilation is rare in rich person cases but very common in their victim’s cases, the poor, the slaves. Finding compassion for such guy that cannot find a way of satisfaction in life is a bloomer. The critical moment of such stupidity is the background sound: Chopin’s “Funeral march” is remixed with ‘80s electronic game sound. Replacing the magic Chopin violins and violoncello and his profound sufferance that produced such magnificent music with superficiality of such a snoble person which is sad because can’t find a way to spend his money looks to me o rare haughtiness stupidity.
Anyway the whole documentary is full of ambivalences. The consumerism and hard work that makes it possible is criticized but some time to time in the documentary raises up the image of a iron smith and some primitive agriculture workers that synchronize their working actions with a kind of electro-industrial music. Hammering a spike and hand cutting some agriculture plants keeps up with this music. But what this scene means? Does it show how hard common people work is or is putted there just for aesthetic reasons? The thing is that such kind of work is representative to classical slaves but not to the modern ones. It is the bad light in this documentary technology who allowed an easier work for the modern slaves. The fact is that this kind of work happens to be present exactly in such countries lead by Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez. That is why consumerism is much better than those half military dictatorships that this documentary admires. But it is not very clear to me: this documentary agrees or rejects such kind of work? If it does agree it then what is the point for criticizing the capitalism slave hard work? If it rejects it then the critics pointed to western capitalist societies are absurd because such work is not representative to their slaves but to slaves of the centuries like Cuba or Venezuela. But, considering the avalanches of contradictions in this documentary I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that both these ideas are accepted …
Another stupid thing is placing Bill Gates among the politicians. I don’t think Bill Gates is a saint but he deserves his social statute. He is an innovator, a technology creator and deserves the wealth he achieved. He is the most reach man on the earth, or among the richest but worked hard for this and produced objects that improved contemporary life. We speak freely now on the internet thanks to him too. He didn’t parasite as politicians do, he produced real technology. Besides that, I don’t know how much is propaganda and publicity for his company, but Bill Gates donates to poor a part of his wealth when politicians just ruthless exploit them with taxes. That is a real difference. But indeed, the reaction of that Microsoft employee is really scary (min. 37). It’s unforgettable. That is indeed dehumanization! I wouldn’t like to have a boss like that person.


What I found good in this documentary


The most valuable thing in this documentary is in my opinion the contra reason against the accusation of anarchism and violence that authorities used for several years ago antiG8 protesters in Italy. There is no violence against windows or cars that protesters do but violence against people that authorities do and protesters do not. This reason is unbeatable. But in the same time watching MTV and getting a job is not violence either. The documentary should be consistent and rejects the idea of John Zerzan also (min: 6:30). Of course I could accept that hard and stressing work might lead to the same results on people like violence itself because one could get ill and even die sooner. But fortunately the stressing jobs in Occident are very rare now.
Anyway the violence is not possible against things. This put in discussion the Ju$tice concept as a relic of classical imperialism that prevent access to community products for some people. The same stealing that subculturals use and justice punish is done by the state with papers, signatures and “legal procedures”. That means the state (politicians &co) has this right of taking away a part of your propriety as taxes but one that does the same thing without with papers, signatures and stamps is simply sent to jail. That is the lack of consistency of the social system! I am sure that none of us is happy when is rubbed or propriety damaged but that doesn’t mean that this reason is weaker. The lack of humanity and positive discrimination for the marginal or excluded people from the social contemporary system allows this thing to happen. If we don’t find other solutions than fighting against that thief with violence to keep our propriety is because we go back to the surviving primitive resources of eliminating the rival when “civilization” fails. It is exactly what I was writing in another article : “I am sure that if common people would suddenly refuse work any more nowadays corporatists would give up the story of human rights and democracy and hire an army instead”. The bizarre mixture of care for the other superior modern civilization with such primitive reactions is a crude reality of today “wild education” . And, of course, the image of hysterical Microsoft employee is really amazing. Unforgettable.