Garrison Davis
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
From the man who had written, the idea of protection haunts and fulfills life."
Fascism hijacks the mechanism of evolutionary and revolutionary escape and reverts it into a mechanism of destruction.
Instead of resolving crises, it produces constant crisis for it to feed off of, forming, as Deleuze and Guattari say, a war machine instead of resonating in a state apparatus.
a war machine that no longer had anything but war as its object and would rather annihilate its own servants than stop the destruction, to quote A Thousand Plateaus.
This is war not for conquest or revolution, but war as its own end.
The hollowing out of public institutions and social services, the divestment from the milieu of life, leads people to turn towards the suicidal state as the only force of movement.
Resting on, as Virilio says, quote, "...the advanced exploitation of our instincts for death, a new totalitarian state defined by the constant ascent of statistics toward planetary death."
Crime and madness will no longer be the defects.
The madman and the assassin are the legitimate children engendered and recognized by the suicidal state, unquote.
And what phenomenon has risen in the United States the past few years?
The conspiracy theorist and the assassin.
The embrace of total war and the campaign of civil fear necessitates a break from sanity and the bizarre strangeness of means that inevitably result in a self-destructive end.
Virilio claims there is an insanity at the heart of the fascist project.
The imaginary potential of the fascist state arises, quote, from a finished world where insanity has become the goal of order, the very product of organization, unquote.
There's a quote from Goebbels to one of his aides, Prince Frederick Christian.
The world in which Hitler moves is a world of absolute fate, a world in which even success makes no sense.
It's not a mistake that the White House has cast itself as a lost penguin marching to its own death.
They know the absurdity of their replies.
They know the world looks upon them as insane.
They know that they'll never reach the Make America Great Again mountain.