Bio Status Quotes

Dark Winter” was the code name for a senior-level bio-terrorist attack drill causing a nationwide smallpox pandemic that was conducted on June 22–23, 2001.

Agamben has elaborated upon how certain subjects undergo a suspension of their ontological status as subjects when states of emergency are invoked. He argues that a subject deprived of rights of citizenship enters a suspended zone, neither living in the sense that a political animal lives, in community and bound by law, nor dead and, therefore, outside the constituting condition of the rule of law. These socially conditioned states of suspended life and suspended death exemplify the distinction that Agamben offers between "bare life" and the life of the political being (bios politikon ), where this second sense of "being" is established only in the context of political community. If bare life, life conceived as biological minimum, becomes a condition to which we are all reducible, then we might find a certain universality in this condition. Agamben writes, "We are all potentially exposed to this condition," that is, "bare life" underwrites the actual political arrangements in which we live, posing as a contingency into which any political arrangement might dissolve. Yet such general claims do not yet tell us how this power functions differentially, to target and manage certain populations, to derealize the humanity of subjects who might potentially belong to a community bound by commonly recognized laws; and they do not tell us how sovereignty, understood as state sovereignty in this instance, works by differentiating populations on the basis of ethnicity and race, how the systematic management and derealization of populations function to support and extend the claims of a sovereignty accountable to no law; how sovereignty extends its own power precisely through the tactical and permanent deferral of the law itself.

For full effect, this is, of course, proceeded by normal brainwashing. The victim is first isolated from his or her previous environment and trained to hook the bio-survival circuit onto the “guru” and/or the Ashram or commune. The emotional circuit is bent and broken by continuous attacks upon status (ego), until the only emotional security left is found in Total Submission to the group reality-island. The re-infantilized victim is then ready to imprint any semantic circuitry desired, from psychological cults, political cults, religious cults, etc. The socio-sexual circuit can then easily be programmed for celibacy, for free love, or for whatever sexual game the guru has selected. Then, and only then, the neurosomatic buttons are pushed and ecstasy is “given” to the subject “by” the guru.

Znam u minut kada sam [definitivno odlučio da odem iz Srbije]. Osnovali smo Evropski pokret, imali smo podružnice na teritoriji cele bivše Jugoslavije, u nekih četrdeset mesta. U proleće su došla dva Žaka, kako su ih zvali. Jedan je bio Žak Delor, a drugome se ne sećam prezimena. Oni su došli u Jugoslaviju i ponudili bespovratno pet milijardi dolara i pridruženi status za Jugoslaviju u Evropskoj zajednici, pod uslovom da reši svoje međunacionalne unutrašnje probleme. To je bila podrška programu Ante Markovića. Meni se to činilo izuzetno značajnim. Onda sam pošao kod svih predsednika svih republičkih skupština u Jugoslaviji, da im kažem da bi trebalo da o tom predlogu raspravljaju u skupštini. Između ostalih, bio sam kod Krajišnika u Sarajevu. Sa mnom je bio Zoran Pajić, profesor Univerziteta iz Sarajeva, koji je bio član našeg Evropskog pokreta. Kada sam to izložio Krajišniku, on mi je rekao: „Znate šta, prvo da mi svršimo ova naša posla, pa ćemo onda u Evropu.” Ja sam kazao: „Ako ja dobro razumem ta vaša posla, to je krv do kolena.” On na to nije ni trepnuo: “Ako treba krv do kolena, onda krv do kolena.” Toga trenutka sam shvatio da se na ključnim pozicijama na kojima se donose odluke nalaze opasni ljudi, i možda opasni ludaci. Shvatio sam da tu nikakve priče ne pomažu i da će stvarno da padne krv, a kada padne krv, onda više niko ne ume da misli. Onda se misli iz stomaka. Svako ide svome i onda priče ne pomažu.

When you accept the status quo, you become resistant to progress and change. Let not the contentment of your past successes stop you from achieving bigger and better goals. To push yourself up the ladder, to make things occur at a larger scale, you will have to rock the boat, ruffle some feathers and challenge the present circumstances.

The ego — or self — defined by this system appears more mammalian and evolutionarily advanced than the quick reptilian reflexes of the self operating on the oral biosurvival system. Nonetheless, the personality shrinks back to the primitive bio-survival self whenever real danger appears — whenever confronted by threat to life, rather than mere threat to status. This difference between mammalian strategy and reptilian reflex explains why there seems more "time" in the anal territorial system than in the oral bio-survival system. In the later, mammalian system, one explores relative power signals slowly; in the earlier, reptilian system, one attacks or flees instantly.

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