edenism

“Je ne dis pas les choses parce que je les pense, je dis les choses pour ne plus les penser.” — Michel Foucault

“Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects. The child resists on all levels, and to a contradictory demand he responds with a double strategy. To the demand of being an object, he opposes all the practices of disobedience, of revolt, of emancipation, in short, a total claim to subjecthood. To the demand of being a subject he opposes, just as obstinately, and efficaciously, an object's resistance, that is to say, exactly the opposite: childishness, hyperconformism, total dependence, passivity, idiocy.” — Jean Baudrillard

To Baudrillard's two aggressions I add a third, possible only under the tyranny of epidemiological signhood: the destruction of signification, and the second method of dissolving binary oppositions. Rather than signifying the intersection of the dual sets, we abstain from signifying to either set.

(The fourth aggression is the methodology: exorcism. Invocation “pour ne plus les penser.”)

This is the revolution of silence, the death of advertising, distinct from passivity, and more akin to a cat burglar's balance. In lieu of a comprehensive style guide, start your wardrobe with this: wear the last outfit you did not notice.