Saturday, March 24, 2007

Catastrophy/Virulence

catastrophy/virulence
The growth of cancer results from the the anomalities of the body's cells. Terrorism is envoked by anomalities in political bodies of the enemy countries. These violences are resisting against an "even greater evil" that would be far more catastrophic then them. Baudrillard believes "everything is ambigious and reversible". Without the extreme phenomenons like cancer or terrorism, our system would escalade to complete order and transparency. "Chaos serve as as a limit to what would, otherwise, run off into the absolute void. So extreme phenomenon serve, in their secret order, as prophylaxis-by-chaos" against total Catastrophy, against the state of extreme escalation of order and transparency.
We live in a virtual war of mutual assured destruction. The game of who has control over who stands seperate from the war on ground; the real war. The virtual war, fed by our fear, will remain virtual as long as fear remains installed in us. So, fear protects us from the ultimate Catastrophy, that Baudrillard speaks of: the catastrophy of a nuclear ground war. This hyper-realized virtual war leaves the world as it is. It runs parralel with us, but will never physically touch us. We are dominated by bombs and virtual catastrophies which do not explode. Our fear however, is constant, living in the background of our minds and often forgotten.(p21) The ulterior motive behind the possession and control of weapons of mass destruction is to sustain political control. North Korea has put the world in fear with the operation of a nuclear reactor in Yong Byon to fabricate missiles of mass destruction, and the atomic bomb test in October, 2006. Kim Jong will discontinue the operation of the nuclear reactor in return for 50 000 metric tons of fuel, or economic aid of equal value. As long as people are threatened by the possession of weapons of massive destruction, the power contrived by these weapons, a power of ultimate control over other countries, remains intact. Our fear drives the virtual war, and keeps it from becoming reality.

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