A bomb goes off, people scatter, panic, scream. The mass shooter enters a crowded public situation panic sets in as people move, scattering like cockroaches. The scatter is uncontrolled panicked with no planned destination or action. Escape, reach safety. To avoid this chaos one must be programmed to maintain composure, stand still, assess a situation, respond according to procedure or direct command. LCpl Lamb sends the grenade towards the range but does not clear the wall. He panics, he does not maintain composure, he cowers into the corner of the pit by the wall. Strict instructions are given as you approach the grenade range at Cherry Point North Carolina while in Combat Training. If something goes wrong in the range you remain still. No not move, it is the instructor who is trained to remove you from the situation. Lamb did not clear the wall so he was left in that small constrained concrete box with a live grenade, panic set in his training is incomplete. The other Marines learn a lesson that day. It is calm as the helicopter comes in to haul off his wounded body, legs flopping around like rubber red meat mangled with the black of the jungle boots.
The mass of the unit must work as one whole social unit. The response must be in accordance with the command from on high, moving as one controlled body. The Fireteam is trained in a new language with limited symbols. The language is not spoken, it is hand signals. One mind directs the body formed of five men. The language dictates movements of the others part of the whole, the opening and closing of the fist, the raising of the hand. Alert to the dirt the M16 A2 service rifle is ready with the barrel pointed ahead and towards the ground. Each Marine is trained to raise it in immediate response, it is in the ready position.
A unit that maintains its cohesiveness is victorious, it writes history. An assemblage first of organs, neurons, chemicals, water, meat, energy electrons and neurons moving in a mind. The mind is programmed to move with cohesion within the assemblage first of the fireteam then of the unit all assemblages built up of its component parts. Boots n Utes, The M16A2 Service Rifle, the alice packs, the coded language, the parade deck a practice in social cohesion all moving as one in unison. Each heart beating, pumping blood through the organs of each component part of the larger assemblage. The unit that maintains cohesion seeks to deconstruct the cohesive unison of the enemy. Disassembling individual units to component parts, meat, disassembling the organs and cohesive machines that form the individual parts of a social whole with bullets and bombs. Deconstruction of the antithesis, the opposition is done through brutal force only if the thesis maintains its composure, its structure, the assemblage. The collective moves as one to deconstruct the collective of the other. The synthesis is slaughter, murder, genocide, the elimination of the cohesive unit of the antithesis, the opposition, the enemy.
The collective language is coded to classify and divide, laying out definitive dichotomies through reinforced biases. Repetition reinforces the mental coding like genetic coding, coding to form and act in accordance with the hegemony, the passed mental gene, the Meme. Orders from on high passing from the larger assemblage to the component assemblages that form the battalion, built of the units, built of the fireteams, built of the human animals, built of the component material and meat that constructs each one. The meme transmitted from general to First Sgt, to Gunnery Sgt, to Staff Sgt, to Sgt, To Cpl, to LCpl to Private, to neurons passing commands to component parts fingers on triggers boots on the ground guided by an energy, electrons, chemicals. From one neurological system to another the coded language passes the trained movements and commands as the private acts as an extension of the mind pulling the trigger for the Power Elite.
The congregation sits in pews taking in the coded language, the assemblage is formed in a hierarchical manner coding through language the structure of authority, placing each congregate in submission to the idea of the godhead, a coded meme. The Pastor to the Deacons, women in submission to men, children in submission to the parent and social control is achieved through the repeated coded language coming from the authority. Social sanctions excommunicate and shun to maintain adherence. The congregation is divided according to age, gender, social roles into smaller classes each to their Sunday School class receiving proper instruction for their assigned role within a social hierarchy. Grade, age, gender, marital status or lack of all define specific roles in the constructed social hierarchies.
The pastor praises the Nation from the pulpit. The wealthy and powerful are praised and placed in a position of honor. The fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil is forbidden. The secular humanist, the critical theorist, the scientist are all vilified, those who may challenge this hierarchy. As the plate is passed mammon is now god. They worship the Nation, the godhead of the military that is deconstructing human beings globally with weapons of mass destruction. A soldier sits in a room on a computer pressing a button that sends ones and zeroes, binary, a coded language through an internet connection to a satellite down to a drone on the other side of the earth reducing the physical components of those who compose another assemblage with different coding into brutal component parts. Meat and bone disassembled in a manner that leaves it unrecognizable, little pieces of biological material violently shredded to useless parts, moist remains of blood, shit and semin. The kidneys, lungs, stomach, heart and nervous system that once formed an assemblage, a walking, talking, human animal are indecipherable, it will never be reassembled.
Thou shalt not kill, coded definitive command that is only applicable to the individual subject when not engaged in the sanctioned act of murder which is then praised. Thank you for your service. The dogma, the hegemony, only coded language which serves the purpose of the assemblage is acceptable, all else is profane. Good and evil, iniquity is found within adherence to social submission, social cohesion. Deviation challenging the acts of violence are sinful and will be dealt with harshly. The myth of eternal life, a promise of utopia, not here in reality but after your human sacrifice to labor, the wealth and megalomania of the power elite. The coded language presents a justification which upholds the very iniquities it restricts individual components from engaging in. The very acts are renamed, repackaged and represented through coded language to the mind of the congregant, citizen, viewer to be an act of benevolence when done at the bequest of the power elite passing the programming down through schools, churches and the chain of command. Blessed are those who submit with docile acceptance for they shall inherit their reward in death.
The narratives give the dictates of nonviolence to a resisting force told that violence is delegitimizing to their cause as the violence is used as the legitimizing force through a monopolization of violence. The legitimacy of violence makes its way through the propaganda of the public relations team, the marketing and the news room. The White House Press Secretary comes out as news agencies place all eyes on the spectacle. It is no longer violence but re-coded as defense, justice or precaution. We are in turn marketed fear through a constant bombardment of media reinforcing the idea of the conflict, the necessity of the conflict and the justification.
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