PetalswiththeWind 09/19/2006

This past Tuesday night, in order to acutely emphasize Benjamin’s quote, Dr. Notorious Rog, intensified, “The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity” (20). The following is my deductive experience derived from this “original” occurrence in class on September 19, 2006…

Compelling Hallucinatory Demand Created: Imitated: Replicated: Translated: Asseverated!
Surficial conscious ideologies do not stimulate, not until one penetrates the surface and witnesses the true origin of ideas and raw thoughts of the narrative. Human beings are unable to extract from the depthless external. Tendencies of the superficial stereotypical origin are flimsy due to lack of genuine substance, pointing only in the obvious direction of the deliberate message intended. Relying on good ole René, once again he explicitly reveals, how to process the exterior in an “anti”-ideological tradition of manner, “Descartes started his line of reasoning by doubting everything so as to assess the world from a fresh perspective” ("discourse on method" Wikipedia):
How to Think Correctly
Descartes states, "Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed ... the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it."
The Method of Science--The Four Precepts
The following quote from Discourse on Method presents the four precepts that characterize the Method itself:
1. "The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgment than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt.
2. The second, to divide each of the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible, and as might be necessary for its adequate solution.
3. The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order even to those objects which in their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence.
4. And the last, in every case to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so general, that I might be assured that nothing was omitted."
"By clear and distinct Descartes suggests the evidence of the senses.
The enumerations have in time developed into many forms. Descartes suggests drawing boxes on a paper, and connecting them. This idea has led to a multitude of graphic thinking aids used today"("discourse on method." Wikipedia).

Capitalistic totalizing reproduction, mindlessly leads to the exponentially quantitative copying of “art”, suppressing the authenticity of individual production of anomalous ideas, disposing its followers to the imitation, replication, translation and finally, affirmation of propagandist’ data. The “superstructures’” conventional impositions are ill perceived illustrations of standardized conduct and taste. Benjamin infers, “It would be wrong to underestimate the value of such these as a weapon”, for “third parties in pursuit of gain”, in, “the art of the proletariat after its assumptions of power” (19-20). Democratic capitalist loyalty has a subtle quality of faithful devotion, but to whom or what, the generally assumed wholehearted belief in authority--one that is genuinely keeping “their” best interest in mind. Accordingly, hundreds of eager capitalists monopolize the lives of billions, not only with the use of customary ammo, nuclear or chemical warfare, but apparently through emotional, psychological, physiological, monetary, fiscal, and economic means. That ratio has, can, and still will curve, to fit and cage interpersonal relationships, thus, the continuous binding of individuality, through tactical invasion of the senses, followed by the oppressing attack of the instinct, finishing off with the merciless homicide of free will.