Modern Re-education Camps
I stumbled upon an excellent article on the current state of American “Higher” Education:
In America today, the average college campus has become a concentration camp. Agamben foresaw this as a possibility. In Homo Sacer he notes that a camp is not defined by what is done there, but by what it is. Agamben points out that at various points in post-war history, racing tracks, hotels, and stadiums have all become camps in which the normal rule of law is totally suspended.
In blog posts made during the lockdowns in his native Italy in the spring, Agamben foresaw the deleterious long-term effects of universalizing the state of exception through the use of medical lockdowns. He noted that Italians were concerned no longer with their active lives as citizens but only with their “bare life” as living bodies. When politics is concerned with the bare minimum of life without differentiation Agamben concludes we cannot have a free society. The state of exception has become, as he long feared it would, “the normal condition.”
He is correct. In America, college administrators no longer see those under their charge as “students” or “citizens” but merely as “bodies” that may or may not be impure and worthy of exclusion or “quarantine.” Every human person, in this view, is a potential vector before they are anything else. Because the Coronavirus is frequently asymptomatic then these administrators must assume that everyone has it. Intrusive biomedical technological surveillance (PCR tests and sewage samples) must be used to weed out the secretly ill and separate them from others.
This is a dystopia. One need not read about Uighurs in Xinjiang or pick up a copy of 1984 to encounter tyranny and despotism. One need venture only into the nearest center of “higher learning.” Agamben’s only error, it seems, is the assumption that the totalitarian camp would be enforced by the state and the public political order. To the contrary, American private institutions have been more than willing to adopt such powers. Corporations and schools, no less than states, are willing to dominate and reduce the human life under their control.
In America today, the average college campus has become a concentration camp. Agamben foresaw this as a possibility. In Homo Sacer he notes that a camp is not defined by what is done there, but by what it is. Agamben points out that at various points in post-war history, racing tracks, hotels, and stadiums have all become camps in which the normal rule of law is totally suspended.
In blog posts made during the lockdowns in his native Italy in the spring, Agamben foresaw the deleterious long-term effects of universalizing the state of exception through the use of medical lockdowns. He noted that Italians were concerned no longer with their active lives as citizens but only with their “bare life” as living bodies. When politics is concerned with the bare minimum of life without differentiation Agamben concludes we cannot have a free society. The state of exception has become, as he long feared it would, “the normal condition.”
He is correct. In America, college administrators no longer see those under their charge as “students” or “citizens” but merely as “bodies” that may or may not be impure and worthy of exclusion or “quarantine.” Every human person, in this view, is a potential vector before they are anything else. Because the Coronavirus is frequently asymptomatic then these administrators must assume that everyone has it. Intrusive biomedical technological surveillance (PCR tests and sewage samples) must be used to weed out the secretly ill and separate them from others.
This is a dystopia. One need not read about Uighurs in Xinjiang or pick up a copy of 1984 to encounter tyranny and despotism. One need venture only into the nearest center of “higher learning.” Agamben’s only error, it seems, is the assumption that the totalitarian camp would be enforced by the state and the public political order. To the contrary, American private institutions have been more than willing to adopt such powers. Corporations and schools, no less than states, are willing to dominate and reduce the human life under their control.
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Americans must re-adopt their older tradition of liberty and independence. They must see the concentration campus for what it is—a totalitarian trap. They must eliminate this cancer before it metastasizes.
It’s a good article, give it a full read.
Especially important is to note the second from the last paragraph I quoted.
Our prior generations were so afraid of the government that they believed every evil would be enforced by the state.
But what the centralizers realized is that they don’t need the state if they have the institutions. The institutions can perform the tasks just as easily, if not even easier, given the constraints of the state which the institutions do not face.
The private institutions such as corporates and universities have become a much higher threat given our current framework of government. Because they have and continue to shift the national soul to a degenerate one. Which is something even the most totalitarian governments of the past had struggled to accomplish. With this shift comes the ability to instigate something else at the direction of those who control the institutions.
The meme of the grey masses being “programmed” is not a joke, it is a warning. It is near exactly what they are doing. But it’s not new.
It is cultural Marxism in its purest form—And I don’t mean that as the typical boomer boogeyman phrase. Cultural Marxism’s main objective was in conquering the institutions to create a culture suitable for a future Marxist revolution. The centralizers have adopted this strategy and realized it works, but instead of being so focused on communism, it’s on liberal, centralized democracy. One in which they hold control.
Still, the end results are similar.
This is clear if you grasp the power cycle. If the government cannot or won’t act against the citizens, the institutions will. And here we are.
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