Steve-O 10/31

Growing up, the Golden rule was never to lie. Now, I know that was a lie…But then again, the people telling me this did hold the gold. So in a way, the Golden rule has come full circle to represent what I would come to learn in Postmodernism: He who has the gold, rules! Getting past the tradition reinterpreted, and gaining the unsimulacric knowledge of the reality of how the worlds power is divided and distributed, One comes to the question posted by R.O.G. : How can you change this rule or overcome it? Ironically, my initially reaction would most definitely break the Golden rule of my youth! Lie, Lie, Lie, lie some more, and than a little more lying. And if that doesn’t work, convince everyone else of the Hegemony’s dishonest ways. There is no way to enlist the sum of the minds of the disenfranchised than by uncovering or covering some sort of deceit. And this takes us back to Baudrillard and his notion of the simulated and dissimulated. As an outsider (not hegemony) we could only simulate a lie or power, but the hegemony dissimulates the power, or lie, they hold. And on to our next connection, Foucault, and his conceptualization of the Panoptic mechanism and the power of the LIE. What it boils down to, is that you must lie to be in power…or hide the lie which you are living…or convince those being lied to that they are… And once power switches hands, the hegemony lose sight of their controlling mechanism and the vicious cycle of the dialectic returns.We are living one big lie! The Golden Rule never ends…it keeps going and going and going…Nothing outlast the.......