PHARMACEUTICAL PHASHISM: (and the Cult of Mental Health.)

Every imperial society has at some point or an other led a sort of witch hunt. Jungian Psychology, one of the few remaining spiritual disciplines in the world that is still in practice, explains that in a codependent community, preserved by a common egocentric image, all of the negative, repressed traits that the majority of people do not wish to admit to are misattributed to a proverbial “scapegoat”.

Psychiatry is the only institution in the United States of America that can:

a.    Restrict a civilian’s Right to Bear Arms for five years based not upon the commitment of a crime but based upon suspicion.

b.    Give parents free license to forcibly drug their children, indefinitely.

c.    Give hospital staff free license to forcibly drug their patients, indefinitely.

d.    Promote for the lifelong imprisonment of an individual based upon suspicion of intent.

e.    Promote for the lifelong forced drugging of an individual even outside of the jurisdiction of a hospital.

f.      Perform experiments upon non-consenting human beings, with the ultimate intent of maintaining Social Order and Profits for Drug Companies.

g.    Deal amphetamines to children, calculating an addiction prior to the legal age of consent.

h.    Appeal to the egoism of a group in such a way that pits that group against an innocent scapegoat.

i.      Legislate what is or is not a legal form of “reality”.

j.      Administer punitive measurements against an individual based upon that individual’s religious eccentricities.

k.    Create an oppressive double-standard according to which any spontaneous act of protest (such as a victimless act of violence that does no harm to either person or property, except for producing the emotional response in others that was itself the cause for the protest [in whose case violence forces EMPATHY and JUSTICE]) is treated as an offense with a life sentence.

l.      Can achieve all of these ends by means of passing judgment NOT upon the victim’s ACTIONS but upon his SOUL, and based NOT upon hard evidence of wrongdoing (a Romantic pipe-dream for contemporary Law Enforcement) but rather upon theoretical discussion of what MIGHT have happened, as though the suspect were INCAPABLE of KNOWING.

m. Can appoint drug addicts to the systematic overseeing, exploitation, and abuse of mental deviants with “developmental disorders”, even without subjecting these de facto slave drivers to the same degree of scrutiny that these and other mental deviants are subject to.

n.    Can outright lie to hospital patients.

o.    Can forcibly inject someone who is not a convicted felon, often with drugs that are still in an experimental stage.

p.    Exploit legal loopholes by appealing to Public Fear.

q.    Diagnose someone with an invented disease that is by its very nature “mental” and has no physical proof a priori, but is only perpetuated as a prejudicial pop culture myth by the exploitation of the Scientific Method (which by virtue of its falsifiability enthrones Theory as Fact in place of any sort of Absolute Ground, and which precludes the possibility for the diagnosed patient to appeal to the existence of such an Absolute Ground once the diagnosis is being made).

r.     Systematically restrict intelligence and lie about the ostensibly “Rational” nature of Human Life and Beings, effectively dehumanizing people who are disillusioned in any capacity.

s.     Make its diagnoses based upon only a subjective interpretation by a nurse of the subjective account of the patient, rendered “objective” only by arbitrary association with a set of traits (appearing on a checklist) which can be applied to any individual at any time in any place with the same precision.

t.      Diagnose differences of ethical opinion as though they were physical disorders.

u.    Diagnose physical symptoms as though they were ethical infractions.

v.    Treat both physical symptoms and ethical opinions as though they were crimes, creating a de facto criminal outside of de jure jurisdiction.

w.  Deny that a criminal is being charged with a crime.

x.    Force an agenda by stripping chosen deviants of human rights and pitting laypeople against one an other for suspicions of madness.

y.    Totally isolate and marginalize a human person, misrepresenting the peculiarity that comes with Ability as Disability, redefining Disability to mean “Threat”, creating the very environment for suicide and other forms of violence under the false auspices of preventing it, and invalidating any testimony on the part of the Oppressed by virtue of the SAME ISOLATION and ALIENATION OF MIND that the system itself had created.

AND

z.      Can do all of this not only for the Common Good of Society, but for the individual’s Own Good.

And those were just the few that I could fit into the English Alphabet.

FASCISM IS REAL. WAKE UP. NOW.

Dm.A.A.

THE QUEST OF THE BROKEN SPEAR: Chapter One.

September 2013: THE FAMILIAR WORLD.

I quit my job as a cashier at Joann Fabrics, in semi-rural Poway, following a rejection by Dana M.Z.

I meet Mrs. Delonge, the mother of Tom Delonge, and a probable descendant of the De Longespée family, mere days before the conclusion of my retail stint.

I work my final day at Joann Fabrics, on Friday 13, 2013.

I hear Lorde’s song “Royals” for the first time on the radio as my Father drives me home from work.

September 14, 2013:

1.   I celebrate my first day of freedom at a L.A.N. party at Jay Dey’s house.

2.   I meet Susan’s boyfriend, a Marine with P.T.S.D.

3.   I discover that Anthony Riccio’s mother has died.

4.   With the immediate and unprompted help of Jay, I am drunk for the first time in my life.

5.   Jay helps me to confess my feelings for Aisha ben Hassine.

6.   At Denny’s intoxicated, I tell a stranger in the stall about Anthony, his late Mother, and his obsession with “the Ego”. He replies that the “ego doesn’t even exist.”

7.   Back at the Dey Residence, I vomit.

The following day I begin a new dream log. Having concluded my first Journal, it is not long afterwards that I begin my Red Book with a dream involving Dana. One of its earliest dreams involve the Death of a Mother.

An other detail of note: I hear “Royals” for the second time in my life at the L.A.N. party.

AUTUMN 2013:

·        Micaiah Fonken leaves San Diego, with my help and a great deal of monetary support on my part.

·        REFUSAL OF THE CALL: Despite prodding to return to college, especially by an old professor named Ali (who acts as a MENTOR and an OLD MAGICIAN) I find that my parents are no longer willing to finance my return, when I most need them. I am outraged.

December 2013: THE CALL TO ADVENTURE comes as a literal phone call from Arthur Valenzuela, on a Wednesday. It is on this same Day of the Week, which is named in Latin languages after Mercury, the God of Communications, that Andrew (whose Sun Sign, Virgo, is ruled by Mercury) had confided in me his CENTIPEDE DREAM, also by phone, and mere moments upon my return from a spontaneous and mysterious outing.

Arthur’s call regards an assignment that he has to keep a Dream Record. I share with him a seemingly random entry from my Red Book. The entry refers to an annual debate tournament known as the Winter Classic. I hesitate to explain that part to Arthur, as though I were taking a Leap of Faith. He finds it peculiar, owing to the fact that he has been looking for a volunteer Judge to fill a spot at the same tournament that very year. The tournament happens to be held that very same Friday. I agree to act as a Judge.

Dm.A.A. 

Celebrating HIP HOP: MUSIC FOR NIGGERS.

Celebrating HIP HOP: MUSIC FOR NIGGERS.

“Jada Maria she PR so as long as she not Mexican or white she good”

-Jeff Dakid, YouTube commentator.

Hip-hop is the only genre of music that I can think of that uses profanity to such an absurd degree and yet whose adherents forbid members of a certain arbitrary “group” from using its language. None of Wagner’s operas are forbidden to be sung by Jews. No American Country song has a word that “black” people are not allowed to use. And yet to this day posters on YouTube deride Puerto Rican singer Jennifer Lopez for using the word “nigga” ONCE in a song penned by Ja Rule, who uses it in every one of his popular singles. And to add to the mortifying absurdity of this is that the only arguments under that original post are aimed, totally ARBITRARILY, at CONFINING USE OF THE WORD to CERTAIN ETHNIC GROUPS. This is not Trump’s GOVERNMENT that is telling people what they can or cannot say; these are AMERICAN CITIZENS who behave as though the First Amendment were of no relevance. It is small wonder but a great embarrassment that the Millennial Generation uses Trump as a scapegoat because they are the very ORIGIN of Fascism in this country, and all that Trump does to feed the flame is to build a country so privileged that the revolutionary instinct (that Ché Guevara called “genetic” in young people) is turned AGAINST one’s fellows and thereby PRESERVES the environment of insanity and prejudice that youth grow up in, especially in the Urbs.

One would think that the front line in resolving this lingering karmic embarrassment from the twentieth century would be the Social Justice department, especially as it is expressed amidst clever college kids. The post-structural and existentialist terms “essentializing” and “tokenizing” are on repeat twenty-four/seven in Debate Circles, but do Debaters do their part to protect the birth-right of every individual to the entire human lexicon? NO. In fact, they do more DAMAGE to the situation than any other group I’ve known! Ja Rule might have been okay with J. Lo using “nigga”, but your average Lincoln-Douglas Debater, pale-faced or not, would see neither the beginning nor the end of it.

Again: this Absurdity is new. Rock and roll would have only ever forbidden people to FORBID the use of profanity, going to great lengths to liberate the human tongue in all its expressions. Yet Rockers had it easy in that they actually had to contend with a prejudiced GOVERNMENT. The Government of today is not moralistic, but economic. All dogmatic ethnic prejudices TODAY begin with civilians. There can be no evidence of any sort of system of oppression in place that is not a projection of the Individual Psyche, because to displace blame onto the government is to muddle the entire investigation that begins properly with an interrogation of one’s own self: Am *I* the danger?

Of course: the first and final irony is that “nigga” is not EVEN a Black Invention. Its ancestor “nigger” is of course of white fabrication, and its origins are in “negro” (Pron. “Knee Grow”) which is a bastardization of the Spanish “negro” (“Neg Row.”). The word has EVOLVED over time, and it has not yet reached its perfection. Jennifer Lopez might very well have marked a crucial step in the further metamorphosis of this rather annoying trigger-word into the butterfly that any self-respecting linguist would like to see: a ubiquitous term of ENDEARMENT that is available to all human beings. Perhaps in the year 2025 we will hear our children calling one an other “nigger” to mean “best friend”, “brother”/“sister”, and “comrade”. But perhaps that is too much to expect of contemporary “liberal” society.

I don’t know if the Library of books written ON the N-word delve into it from an International Point of View, such as the fact that “black person” is “niegger” in conventional Russian. (This is of course a testament, if I may, to the incredible respect that Russians have all ways had for foreign cultures, for instead of restricting “black” to the native Russian “chorniy” they borrowed the Spanish word and adapted it in a fashion that, BY COINCIDENCE, as though FATED, came to the same memetic conclusion as Americans did with “nigger”. RUSSIANS, UNLIKE Americans, can respect foreign languages enough to use the Hispanophilic term liberally; AMERICANS, especially AFRICAN AMERICANS, DEMAND that you employ the Anglo-Saxon “black”.)

To top it all off is the pathos, long ago severed from any logos.

WHY AM I NOT A NIGGER?

Because I am “white”.

WHY AM I WHITE?

Because I look the part.

WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Because one must not be “racist”.

HOW AM I RACIST?

Because I am “white” and use the word “nigger”.

WHAT IS “RACIST”?

The irony is that the very prejudice that was supposedly at the root of the “conception” of “nigger” (which, as I’ve established was no more a WHITE Invention than it was a Black one.) is the EXACT PREJUDICE that forbids people from using it, with Fascistic and Kafkaesque Bureaucracy. So who gets to use the word REALLY?

Ironically:

JENNIFER LOPEZ!!

Because her very native TONGUE uses “negro” as a direct translation of the “politically correct” term “black”.

Thank you, J Lo, for keeping it REAL.

Dm.A.A.

Why you Should Use the Word “Nigger”.

Why you Should Use the Word “Nigger”.

“All anxieties are linguistic.” – Jacques Derrida.

A preface seems in order, not only out of concern for public accountability but all so out of consideration [f]or the Individual Reader, who is in fact my target audience and whose integrity is not mitigated by this formal conceit:

I am not black.

Neither am I white.

I have forgone all such identifications.

My ethnic background is very peculiar to me; as far as I am aware I am one of less than a dozen people with this particular cultural and genetic make-up. And neither of them, to my mind, have any substantial bearing upon my personality, except in those dim corners that most people are ardently and outspokenly apathetic about.

So there’s that.

When I first conceived of these theories, I was a student at Palomar College. I was on the Debate Team, part of a notoriously “politically correct” and, to that same degree, criminally hypocritical youth organization called the National Forensics Association. I have seen my share of contemporary American Fascism. Its contempt for both artistry and intellectualism has been of textbook status.

I was all so a student of philosophy, especially the works of Nietzsche, Camus, and Derrida. I am to this day fascinated by the role that Language plays in the construction of our Reality. It is certainly not monarchical in this respect, nor ought it to be, but its dominion is great and terrible nonetheless.

I have recently taken to use of the word “nigger” again in my poetry, and if any cause can be attributed to this it is either this one or one that contributes likewise to it: the music of Ja Rule. A classic rapper and poet of the thug tradition, who all so shares a Sun Sign with me, (the Most Musical of All the Signs: Pisces) Mr. Rule is known for blending profanity seamlessly with romantic imagery and blurring the lines betwixt violence and love. Among his main guns is the word “nigger”, but in particular its derivative form “nigga”, which follows the standard hip-hop format of dropping the “r” at the end, as in Twista, Killa, etc. (This is of course an inversion of some forms of British English that do the opposite, in whose case a subtle “r” is added to a word ending otherwise in an open “a” sound.)

As a native Russian speaker, I was taught from a young age, in honour of our rich language, not to omit vowels are consonants. I even listened to an educational Soviet song in youth, sung by a boys’ choir, about the error of “swallowing syllables”. I still remember this media to this day, as well as the various means by which it was conveyed to me.

The Cyrillic alphabet, for those of you who wish to know, contains more characters than the English alphabet, some of which are not even letters but rather symbols that are used to delineate varying degrees of hardness or softness. The Russian “R” is all so of an intrinsic hardness that makes a Spaniard saying “Honduras” sound all most laughable. And of course I mean this half-jokingly; in reality, we are probably neck and neck in terms of the severity with which we grate our tongues against our teeth at the mere thought of the letter “R”.

It follows logically that I would only drop the “r” at the end of “nigger” only VERY exceptionally, and only for a post-modern effect (an aesthetic I do not court, though I might sleep with it.). My “black” influence, from hip-hop, is tempered by the “white” influence of grammar and diction, not to mention the literature of Faulkner and Steinbeck. It is ridiculous and an insult to the artist’s hand to expect me to filter out a perfect rhyme (such as “nigger” and “trigger”, whose rhyme is only outshone by its reason, especially in both Gangsta* Rap and Social Justice circles) for a sort of lazy, Mumble-Rap “near-rhyme”. (The classic Soviet joke is “palka” and “selodka”, meaning “stick” and “herring”, respectively, and its significance in that it ALL most rhymes, but not quite.)

*As a genre, I observe “Gangsta” as distinct from “Gangster”, but this is obviously for exclusively taxonomical purposes that hold no sway on the lyrical stage.

Balance is restored aesthetically in the synthesis of both Apollo and Dionysus, Order and Chaos. Such is a theme ubiquitous throughout the Human (and even the non-Human) World, manifest in Taoism as well as in Hinduism, in Nietzsche as much as it is in Huxley, Shakespeare, or Aristotle. So it follows that my liberal use of the ubiquitous word “nigga” is tempered by the highest possible respect for its roots: “nigger”. To me, the thought that any one would employ a word NOT out of respect for its roots but out of SPITE for them is utterly barbaric. After all: without knowledge of the roots we not only lose the original meaning, but we PRESERVE it. So long as “nigga” and “nigger” are not considered simply alternate forms of pronunciation, as alike in dignity and origin as “fake” and “fuck”, then the latter maintains its archaic, “derogatory” quality whilst the former accrues all the glory owed properly to the latter. This is not an issue of “social justice”; it is simply RESPECT FOR LANGUAGE, an Ideal byfar surpassing most. Language is our bridge between the civilized and uncivilized worlds. If its role as this bridge is forgotten, then we lose the sacred harmony betwixt the civilized man and the human animal. At that point we all so lose the distinction between Freedom of Speech and Abuse of Speech, so that even the most ubiquitous of Truths go up for sale in a sort of slave trade peddled by narcissists who believe that they can say whatever they want so long as it is “socially appropriate” and “politically correct”. The nurturing ear becomes assaulted then daily by the silver tongue, and we become prisoners of language in a neurotic game orchestrated by politicians, salespeople, and sociopaths. And our own Freedom of Speech ultimately dies, as we are defined by those entities and either forbidden or allowed, based upon considerations of which we have no say, to say or not to say a given phrase.

Keep in mind that the word, in all its permutations, holds no Fixed Meaning. At the point that James Cameron becomes Night Lovell’s “nigga”, it is ubiquitous in its relevance. Every one and no one is a nigga. And in the same way that to be wary is to be aware and to beware, so it is that to be a nigga is, BY DEFINITION, to be a nigger. And that means that one is UNIVERSALLY so; if Kanye West admits to being a “nigga”, then George Bush retains the right to call him a “nigger”. There is simply no way around that. And neither is there any thing that stops me from retaining that right. It thus follows that the Law preserve the right of every individual to use that term as (s)he sees fit, so that it might evolve in its connotation and never fall into a dogmatic denotation. If the Spirit of the Law is to take precedence over the Word of the Law, then the Spirit of the Word must never be restricted BY the Law. The Law never reserved the right to judge of Souls, but only of Actions, so to call someone a “racist” is pre-legal and inferior. When I met a former neo-Nazi whilst walking with my friend D. Mendez outside of Palomar College on one sunny day, the former told us a story of how he was convicted of a “hate crime” for simply assaulting a member of a rival gang and calling him a “nigger”. Considering the content of any one classic hip-hop song, be it Regulators or Guerillas in the Mist, this proved Absurd to both me and Mr. Mendez. Vulgarity is a fact of life in all street violence, and there is NO MEANS by which Law Enforcement can put a stop to violence by restricting its expression according to an arbitration of what sorts of slurs are permitted to what people. Such a double-standard is the very ORIGIN of violence, and rightfully so, for at that point all forms of violence are, with varying degrees of potency, admittedly, a reaction to Fascism. No Police Officer or Judge retains the right to dictate what you can or cannot say; they can only tell you that you have the right to Remain Silent. And in so neurotically loquacious a culture as insists that Silence cannot be Consent (not that this claim is true) it’s only to be expected that gang violence be suffused with all sorts of insulting rhetoric. Yet this rhetoric only adds INSULT to Injury; it is not Injury IN AND OF ITS SELF. Offense is only violent to the King; the peasant has bigger worries. And the United States was supposed to be a nation not of Kings but of Peasants.

Dm.A.A.