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Garrison Davis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Appearances Over Time

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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

From the man who had written, the idea of protection haunts and fulfills life."

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

Fascism hijacks the mechanism of evolutionary and revolutionary escape and reverts it into a mechanism of destruction.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

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.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

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.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

This is war not for conquest or revolution, but war as its own end.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

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.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

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."

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

Crime and madness will no longer be the defects.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

The madman and the assassin are the legitimate children engendered and recognized by the suicidal state, unquote.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

And what phenomenon has risen in the United States the past few years?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

The conspiracy theorist and the assassin.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

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.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

Virilio claims there is an insanity at the heart of the fascist project.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

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.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

There's a quote from Goebbels to one of his aides, Prince Frederick Christian.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

The world in which Hitler moves is a world of absolute fate, a world in which even success makes no sense.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

It's not a mistake that the White House has cast itself as a lost penguin marching to its own death.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

They know the absurdity of their replies.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

They know the world looks upon them as insane.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 219

They know that they'll never reach the Make America Great Again mountain.