DAEDARUS, OR A SCHIZOPHRENICS GUIDE TO POLITICS
DAEDARUS, OR A SCHIZOPHRENICS
GUIDE TO POLITICS
(Short story)
Benoy P.J
The RP(Rescue Party) was formed as an answer to all the
problems of our society, or so its proponents were want to claim, including the
problem of ‘politics’. Daedarus’s
responses to the existence of the party was somewhat mixed, at times he would
appear as an onlooker during a public meeting held by the party, some of his
friends would join in a procession or so, Daedarus may also be seen gazing at
the procession of its opponents, the Freedom Party (FP), and as to his leanings
nothing definitely could be said, other than that he was omnipresent even in
gatherings were nothing was spoken for or against anything. That he did not
even have a definite shape or skin colour and could easily dissolve into any
gathering as a faceless apparition decisively influencing its policies was
obvious, since almost all political or individual decisions taken after his
coming to be in the year 0000 was in someway or other influenced by him. A
contraption of many faces, who could make each of them his own, who at the same
time remained faceless, submerged partially in each one, and never completely
available, Daedarus however seemed to possess a male gender identity. However, some
of the Daedarus clones were female, and as to the clones, they were never in
anyway similar to each other in physical appearance or mental makeup.
Apocalypse was always a part of their makeup, and an element of Manicheanism
inherent almost as if it were a generic/genetic trait. Daedarus fixed objects
and people to their original places, as if they were held there by a secret twine,
though Daedarus itself , it could be easily made out, was simulacral, without
any original.
Conceived by some as an anagram, Daedarus motions
continuously at subordinating human potentials and possibilities to suit its
‘Superiorism’ and through the clones who work in concert with ‘MF’ and ‘A.L’
personae constantly erects projects which would appear to be emancipatory or
conservative according to the requirement of the day, and would inspire crowds
into responses of some frantic variety from which they could seldom back off.
The ‘Show Down’ was one of the regularly occurring terms in any Daedarus
Dictionary, often reduced to a colloquial ‘Shadun’ through which the designs of
the clan could be precipitated. The ‘shadun event’ was conceived as a point
were ordinary reasoning would be cancelled through the workings of a populist
outcry, vehemently fought for and argued but totally meaningless. Panicked
responses, demolitions and pogroms or genocides and further advances of State
power were never too far off from its repertorie, but such events could never
be traced to any singular origin.
The congregations of the Daedarus clones were of a highly
secretive order, and as to whether there have ever been any, one could never be
sure. Very often the clones worked independently, argued themselves into
distinct positions, and fought amongst themselves, and seldom recognized each other
as of a common kind, so that the policies could be carried out through groups
which were totally antagonistic to each other, each leading to some new
possibility of making impossible any political / social/ religious
congregation. It is not that all such projects were established by the Daedarus
clones, that would be too farfetched and would reduce all the possibilities to
a singular active agency, which was far from the truth, but whatever efforts
and pursuits were generated by society at large would soon be parodied and
deflected in such a way that effective congregations would turn out to be
impossible.
Further, the Daedarus effect was to generate its own
projects with heatedly argued positions that made everything appear to be
dependent on the outcome of such an event, that almost anybody will have to
take a stand on the proposed project, which, if it were to be pursued further
would prove itself to be totally absurd and contradictory and in the interests
of the superiorism that it tends to propound. Sometimes projects which were
already on the way would be usurped by the Daedarus clones active in it through
their ‘true dedication’, ‘high morality’, ‘selfless work’ and so on which were
qualities that seemed to be lacking in almost anybody else in the movement,
since ordinary people tended to proceed from a frugal economy that necessitated
some sort of material- cash support for their activity. The clones (also called
Klons, improving upon their predecessors in the KKK.) were always well
empowered in terms of knowledge, had a fad for high culture, and would be adept
at the argumentation of petty details. Alternately they would argue for the
merits of populist culture but were generally contemptuous of what they called
D-Culture or degraded culture of the popular variety, which would somehow tend
to undermine SS-Culture (Superiorist/ Supremacist culture).
It would be a mistake if someone were to look up Daedarus in
the telephone directory, because there either was no person at all in that name
or there were too many. So much so that if you were to call out “Daedarus….” in
a crowd, at least a dozen people would look back at you, and you will never be
able to find out as to how many of those who looked were named Daedarus, and
how many of those not named Daedarus were actually Daedaruses, and of those
named Daedarus how many had merely happened to be so named, since the name had
turned out to be a popular one in the land of Constipancy.
A constipality was the local body that would regulate the
problematics for a legitimate expression in the region, rendering a whole lot
of possible everyday behaviour as placed on the brink of criminality. For
example, the willful use of cigarettes for smoking in public places was
considered unlawful, whereas the consumption of any amount of smoke as was
produced regularly in an industrial situation was termed mandatory. If someone
were to consume poison for committing suicide, that is definitely punishable ,
but if the farmers , industrialists, the State etc., found it necessary to
treat their products with high amounts of toxic materials, the effects that
these produced on you will escape all notice. Though the logic of the Constipality
was essentially that of subordination and tyranny, the constipants were to present
themselves as benevolent and respectful of the commonfolk wherever the
appearance suited them, as a means to entice them or suspend disbelief in the
system.
The Constipancy effectively utilized a system called tongue
wag or surround sound to bring order to its precincts, and apart from the
Daedarus klons (who were more active in the construction or elaboration of
plots) would employ other varieties of personae including the MFs, A.Ls,
appeasers, X-fixers, diggers, sniffers and poison sacs among others to actualize
these programs. Any actual person, could at sometime or the other be co-opted into one of these positions since the
operation of the system was essentially based on partial observers and
knowledges and totalizing was well near impossible due to the vast multiplicity
of forces and relations at work. On the other hand there was also the prospect
of a klon, digger, sniffer or poison sac crossing over and becoming a generator
or precipitator.
The kind of playfulness and camaraderie exhibited by an
appeaser towards the generator/s is effective in drawing out the generator
towards vulnerable positions, which the appeaser then manipulates cleverly to
turn the table on him. Subversive and transgressive aspects of practice are
doubled back to the avant-garde as a retro effect through populist sneering.
While the appeaser has a sugar coated style of functioning the denouncer or
poison sac uses his sting to make the subject wince. The immediate pleasantness
of an appeaser is meant to create a friendly impression on the person who is
under ‘training’ so that their rebuttal would emotionally affect the generator
to a greater extent.
The digger, as the name foretells is an individual/ group of
individuals employed to fish out details regarding a particular individual/group
of individuals (Generators) who are active in social/ political/religious life
going back to their entire life with inspection glasses alongside sniffers who
work around aspects of personal behaviour such as sexual preferences, habitual responses,
political attitudes etc., and MF and A.L personae who work to generate/
influence the opinion of the Generator in favour of Power and also to maintain
constant pressure over individuals through the deployment of surround sound /
tongue wag that is constantly reworking public opinion around him/ her. The Generator
him/her self is someone in whom the Daedarus system perceives an original
intent and line of flight which could countermand/ upset the organization of
Superiorism, and by actively working on and around him/her employing devices
generated from allusions to possible biographies (the Narcissus ploy) producing
a constant tension and confusion so that the effectivity of the individual and
of such projects are questioned and the threat is diffused, the mechanism of correction
works towards what is in its terminology ‘The Wonderful Tomorrow’.
An archive of the historian of daedarucy would contain
anything from billboards, gestures, responses, accusations, trials, number
games, symbols, vehicles, names, meetings, performances, Gestapo,
undergarments, doodles, eating habits, intoxicated responses, praise,
suggestion, anything that can contribute to a historicism of the everyday
world. Is Ramu Daedarus? I cannot make sure, since the prospect of him turning
into a generator is never too far off. But in this case, and in all cases we
will have to decide this since the continued well being of the whole world is
dependent on this. But who will eventually decide this? And even if there
remains the prospect of there being such a person, how can one be at all sure
that he himself/ herself is not daedarus, or maybe just an MF personae? This is
why I am want to say that the world is a figment of our imaginations,
gentlemen!
To point out certain types in this raw game and what cooks
for those who cook wouldn’t in anyway preclude the chance that none of these
types are at all openly perceivable, and that only individuals exist, and that
individuals are too complex to be reduced to schemata/ phenotypes. However with
the hindsight that a more relativistic vision provides, I would like to pursue
these enquiries so that the truth of what appears to be nonsense surfaces and
much of what had hitherto appeared to be true to commonsense can eventually be
seen in a different light.
It may be difficult to stand by madness against reason as I
am here proposing, but that is what I am about to do, to be madder still so
that the madness that is reason may sleep on or take wings as is necessary. The
perception of such sociological facts compound the difficulties herein, and in the aftermath the author is already on
the verge of regaining illogicity . Thank you.
posted by BENOY P.J @ July 28, 2013
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