2016 Presidential Election

[dada]

JR said:

No one is in charge

We live in a system - and always have, as far I can tell - where heirarchy is the overarching reality. Our parents are in charge. Our schoolteachers are in charge. Our bosses are in charge. Our politicians are in charge. Our monarch is in charge. Our pope is in charge.

This system follows us from cradle to grave, saturating our every moment of existence - yet there is no one at the top?

How very, very convenient. The greatest sleight of hand ever performed has to be this misdirection. It is truly a 'nothing to see here, move on' masterclass. You are cloyingly immersed in it - it is everywhere - yet it does not exist where it most obviously should?

Do you think a worker ant knows it's a worker ant? Nature has a way of hiding inconvenient facts from it's functioning parts.

Looked at another way, we could say Nature is its functioning parts.

There's no individual ant running the ant colony. They all build it and reproduce it together.

The human system is a bit different than nature. We're not just ants. We hope.

The human hierarchy is an overarching social reality. That's what I fight against. It may have served a purpose in the past, but now it's in the way. The system has been changing drastically, especially in the last 50-100 years. Obviously we still have a ways to go. And there is resistance to change at all levels of the pyramid, not just from the top.

The top of the pyramid is not in charge. If anything, the eye in the middle is. And even the eye isn't technically 'in charge,' it's just in the power spot. From the middle of the pyramid you have the most options, more control of the board. You can act, instead of constantly being forced to react.

The top is a relatively safe spot. But nothing happens up there, you get nothing done if you don't move. And at some point a snake jumps up and kills you. I said it was relatively safe.

[Belligerent Savant]

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REFUSE. RESIST.

Chaos A.D.

Total alarm

Inside the state,
War is created

Refuse/Resist

[Grizzly]

"The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a towel. And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes." Small God's

[Harvey]

"The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a towel. And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes." Small God's

Small Gods has been my favourite of Terry's since I read it. I did this and another picture for the 2001 calendar over six days, the deadline was very tight. Terry heard about how broke we were and raising four children. He waived his fee and gave it to us. He was like that, a very decent man.

[Luther Blissett]

It's definitely turned me into a blithering idiot for even paying attention.