NEVER REALLY SLEEP #2: THE OCCUPY MELBOURNE EDITION

DISCLAIMER FOR NEW READERS:

I hope you are all impressed by the way I've been ignoring that whole Occupy Melbourne thing.

I feel that many bloggers may lack the mental self-discipline needed to ignore that whole Occupy Melbourne thing.

Nah, just fucking with you. I'm all over that shit:

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PART I:  COLD ANALYTICAL REASONING

I know, I know, but don't worry crew, I'm gonna talk you through that whole Occupy Melbourne thing, in the only way I know how: with some smug poetry and confusing art.

That's OK, no need to thank me.


KEEP THAT LINE MOVING!

[notes towards an investigation.]

also, a poem.


do this:

keep public ignorant

to get this:

less resistance


do this:

limit access to control points

to get this:

program simplicity



do this:

create preoccupations

to get this:

lowered defences



do this:

give more credit

to get this:

more self-indulgence
more data



do this:

social conformity

to get this:

social isolation



do this:

accelerate timing

to get this:

less data shift and blurring



do this:

collapse currency

to get this:

destroy people's faith in money

PART II: BASED ON A TRUE STORY

If oppression emanates from the power of that which is seen, then logic might compel us to investigate the possibility that resistance could ally itself with the power of that which is unseen. The unseen is not necessarily the invisible or the disappeared. It can be seen and might be seen. It is not yet seen—or it is deliberately hidden. It reserves the right to re-appear, or to escape from representation. This hermetic ambiguity shapes its tactical movement; to use a military metaphor, it practices guerrilla techniques of "primitive war" against those of "classical war", refusing confrontation on unequal terms, melting into the generalized resistance of the excluded, occupying cracks in the strategic monolith of control, refusing the monopoly of violence to power, etc. 

["Violence" here also signifies imagistic or conceptual violence.] In effect it opposes strategy [ideology] with tactics that cannot be strategically bound or ideologically fixed. It might be said that consciousness "alone" does not play as vital a role in this as certain other factors. ["Freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill".] For example, there is an aspect of the unseen that involves no effort, but consists simply in the experience of places that remain unknown, times that are not marked.

The Unseen Obelisk - Hakim Bey

PART III: NEVER REALLY SLEEP

And Occupy Melbourne looks like this:

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And sometimes it feels like this:



But sometimes it's so damn amazing I just stand there and look around, smiling.


Try to dig what I'm trying to lay down:

1] NEVER REALLY SLEEP
2] You Must Have An Enemy #4: Meet The New War, Same As The Old War
3] Words Are Pictures #3: Medley Of Spirituals