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Title: Interruptions... Author: Biblioteca Anarchica Disordine Date: March 14, 2020 Language: en Topics: COVID-19 Source: Retrieved on 2020-03-28 https://actforfree.nostate.net/?p=36767 Notes: Translated by Act for Freedom Now!
There is nothing new about social life taking place at a distance. For a
long time now people have been persuaded that the best way to
communicate and relate is through the use of a device. Prostheses of the
human being, the smartphone and its like, have transformed the way of
being together, of being informed, learning, communicating, writing and
reading.
The next step is the robotization of living, technique pervading every
place, every aspect of daily life. An overcoming of nature and the
natural in favour of artificial beings and places. Such a scenario needs
no social life, it does not need relationships, feelings, thoughts, it
only needs order, discipline, regulation, machines. Maybe Dominion is
trying to take a step forward and use a health problem, the spread of a
virus, to reach generalized regimentation at least, the rest will then
take care of itself. Science fiction comes to mind, but States have
centuries old instruments to draw on without having to resort to the
unknown.
The social distancing imposed by laws prohibiting kisses and hugs and
the suppression of most social activities, recalls states of emergency
in which the rules of social life are imposed and must be obeyed so as
not to run up against getting charged or being arrested. And indeed the
establishment of red zones and checkpoints, limitation of freedom of
circulation, obligation of home isolation for those coming from areas
considered infected controlled by police, but above all the ban on
gatherings, i.e. public meetings, is the police management of a health
problem. Not surprisingly it is foreseen in the ten rules recommended by
the Italian State to avoid the spread of the virus that in case of fever
the carabinieri must the first to be contacted. But states of emergency
are also the measures provided for in situations of conflict or
insurrection, as happened recently in Chile.
The State decrees by law that citizens are its property and it can
dispose of them as it sees fit. States of emergency are not imposed for
health reasons or the population’s welfare, but to make rules become
introjected, to instill discipline. And indeed, the surest way to obtain
obedience is to spread terror, fear. Create anxiety and panic,
continually divulging data, making everything sensationalistic and
exceptional. Frightening is a practice of war and torture as well as of
government, and States are specialized in this too. And war has
forcefully come back into vogue after being removed and cancelled out
for many years. Today the war is here, indeed everywhere. Heads of State
are declaring themselves at war against a somewhat singular enemy, a
virus, but their real adversary or target is not that, it is their very
subjects. For this reason the issue at stake, perhaps the most
important, is to keep critical thinking alive without downplaying
anything. Having, arm in arm with the Economy, industrialized and
devastated nature and desertified thought, now feelings are being
cancelled out. No kisses, no hugs.
However, if Dominion wants us totally dependent on it, if the State
cancels social and in part also economic life, that means that we don’t
need the State. That we can self-organize our initiatives, our forms of
education, our economies, our leisure. And also in this case we don’t
need to resort to science fiction but to experience, memory, our will
and courage.
The prisoners fighting in the Italian prisons that this state of
emergency would like to see buried alive are showing a way. That
normality be interrupted, yes, but by revolt.
Biblioteca Anarchica Disordine, Lecce