9.1 Bang!
9.2 System does not work for all of its people and it makes talk, talk makes action or just more talk and anger?
9.3 Business as usual?
9.4 Fossil object the one who has been given place of a glorified subject: A farewell to Le Coup de téte, the hot head.

9.1 Bang!
Son of a terrorist whore, terrorist, daughter of a whore, what a whore, you filthy whoring bitch, you idiot! Calling names, naming, giving a ‘title’ and position for a person, is to define someone, verbally hurt to state power over, for those who are listening and to the subject himself/herself. How hurtful verbal abuse is, is an interesting case as in era of social media such language is rampant. Discrediting a life, sex, gender, being, tradition, family, ethnic background, country, person as a whole, what else is new, opinions give and take a lot of heat, question is what to make of rage, and of opinions. Placing people in line and where they belong is what people tend to do, comparison and simplification is a norm, competing with hurt is the easiest way to slap down. What will come of this type of talk, of this use of one’s personal power? The fighting and ill-made by words is also the saddest of ways to discredit as it is so direct and oftentimes off the topic.

Learning prejudice is a process of fitting in, not being hurt yourself and learning how it happens that we blend and fit in, what do we have to do to be suitable, ‘proper’, admirable, likeable, successful and is an emotional process of growth or manipulative progress as we form our minds and habitus according to what we must be, what we fear, who we think we are, how we are we, who is the enemy and should be the enemy. What other people think is not a small matter despite what people say. Judgment is still an important molder of society and a group. To rebel against or play along and how must be chosen carefully. What does it mean if one belongs to a group, thinks in a certain specific way, is this what one is? Grouping is a powerful weapon and nowadays it tends to be, if you do not agree, you are against us.

Powerful learning happens via how adults talk and behave, what happens around in a community, who is bad and how, whom people hate, disrespect or respect, and to know why can be a secondary issue. Why are you the one who witnesses and what do you make of the absorbed info? Reasons there being the personal loyalty issues, one can decide where to stand but be left alone. To know who, what kind of people and what values are superior, that there is scum on earth and you are of course not one of those, is a question of making a person, identity, part of making differences and gaps between people. What is the comparison all about and whom does it affect, how do we collectively group, how we act toward those we know and those we don’t know? The concrete event there that has a massive effect: children are watching and moving in imitation. Power of examples is effective especially of those whom we admire and who have the power, especially over us.

How to show emotions or do we have other than negative ones to give? To have an emotion other than a negative one to show, what a challenge since cynicism and being angry are somehow admirable and signify intellect, but yes, anger and contempt are shown as people would deserve it, expressed every day, but can you be clever when angry and what does anger do to you other than make you feel superior? How do we manipulate and censor our anger, who gets to have it and what is the purpose of all the hate shown and given, as our emotions give structure to the whole of our being, thinking and the culture we live in at large? (I do speak as an artist and this is the reality). What kind of power do given emotions and names entail and what kind of place naming has in society is a profound issue. The unhealed scars we carry, contempt, fear and memories of how we must earn our place and take a lot of burden to carry until we can succeed is a very Christian/religious way to think. To go the hard way is how we make our place, inherit and earn it. It all plays a significant role, every detail, every word and look. How we look at each other is a sign as is how we ignore. Issue is what do we believe in and do we behave according to what we think is right or what is it all about, who or what is the authority when it comes to separating  and connecting people?

It is meant to beat someone down from the ladder of dignity and self-assurance, confidence, to worthlessness and powerlessness. Names hold secrets, power, freedom or slavery, truths, lies, plain violence, ugliness, malevolence, or beauty which ring in the echo chamber. Names hold a lot of things, what people do and think, belong to, are about, what people have chosen to do and be about. The curious issue of what people are and what is the truth about anyone, who knows. Shaming which happens frequently, pointing a finger, is what we have always done when we have had to draw lines, moralize and punish, look better than, show what is wrong with that other. How is a person put to shame is an interesting process and still a big part of the social order which holds on to our morals and values, habits of thought and behavioral patterns changing immensely slow. Our morals and values must be chosen carefully. There are morals and values that all must stick to as we must know what is good, and do good, what and who get to be chosen as valid and valuable is according to what we see as valuable, sustainable, durable, effective, good and what is the good for all maybe. How does it happen, our good for all, for all of us and why is punishing of someone important, how punishing happens, someone who has not lived up by the morals and values. The society sees and corrects us, a collective does too. Rules are there for a reason, are they written or unwritten?

What is a person and who are the audience, to whom the truth is told, who is supposed to act upon, feel and continue living, who is not, who is the brave, who is a dissident and how such individuals get treated? The moment when the event of shaming happens, what happens there, who takes part in the discrediting and why? Who are the morally righteous and good? To take one’s place in society, which place is taken and given, what kind of place do we get? The dominance there, values (again), morals and fears of being exposed. Why people exist and live in a society where justice can be delivered only for some. Balance that has to be protected and imbalance which can lead to progress that has to be avoided and be scared of by those who have power and status. Randomness of becoming and existing, needs and desires are one kind of determinations of social place and also destructive forces. Who can define social place of anyone today, who thinks belongs and deserves, who does not and why?

Is it abilities, work, money, survival, tradition, religion, habits of thought, profession, education, prejudice, nationality, sex and gender? What about people, relations between people, what happens there in terms of all these defining features and characteristics, who we think we are and need? Social place is a place of happening and change is the interesting factor, what is change, what is the needed change? We become through and via making and connecting, making safety nets, platforms there are to head at, make and get. Placing us, we are interactive with our environment, we place ourselves and we are placed. We need the definitions to understand the mess of concepts, people who dwell in names and abstractions, places and positions that are messy and complicated. Mess in them, creations by them, by that inner messiness, to understand mess of ourselves as creators.

9.2 System does not work for all of its people and it makes talk, talk makes action or just more talk and anger?

The mess of people: Coup d’état avec fantasma coup, putsch, overthrow, sudden deposition of a government, militant warlike action that necessarily has got nothing to do with freedom nor democracy. Introduction to speeches in multiple languages, libertad por la pueblo, vapaus kansalle, frihet, freiheit, freedom systeemi on mätä system is rotten to the core, system is system is system and there is nothing we can do to change it. Talk about society as a made-up  unchangeable solid system that does not function and is inefficient, corrupt, does not listen or solve the real needs problems of people.

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To give name to a turmoiling event, describing characteristics of what happens, is seen and heard en-masse, what kind event takes place and where, who are and were involved with whom and how, to remember and choose a side or neutrally observe and analyze. A tune and tone to recognize those who are on the same side and who are against. Who dared to stand up and how. To call them revolutionists, friends, comrades, soldiers, rebels, criminals, rascals, martyrs, traitors, Marxists, Socialists, Capitalists, oligarchs, oppressors, tyrants, terrorists, liberators, dissidents. Distant Marxism, distant revolution historically, geographically, ideologically and Marx is a faraway figure and a very close one always radical and argued about. A thinker, someone who triggered and triggers mental, philosophical, social and physical change, change is appearances and ways of thinking, is and has been danger to the rulers. Politically, socially and culturally it seems impossible to think our world now without Karl Marx and his contribution to all workers. He did not write Communist Manifesto on his own nor was the only one figuring out how to make a cultural and socially lasting revolution, how to make equality happen and exploitation end.

As amazing as it sounds and is and as much loath Communism, socialism and anything related to Marxism has had, because of ideas of Marx, Engels, Bakunin, Luxemburg etc., Socialism still works its way, finds new followers and is making strong opposition within capitalist and political institutions. Historically almost a relic picture but very acute, namely justice, that Communism, those communists, making living concepts and ideologies kept alive systematically because there is always need to survive and there is need for strong rebellion. It easily goes over the top which brings out the question what is the solution to ending exploitation of workers? Needless to ask why power is intoxicating. Do ideologies such as Marxism and Communism have something to contribute and give to our contemporary time other than division between the well-off and the poor, workers and rulers of the finance world and politics? Something which is lacking as always is empathy and compassion, still. What could there be more universal and timeless other than need for comparison, still endlessly experienced exploitation and need for power?

There is a strong tendency in most rebellions and revolutions to be connected with labour movements, women’s rights, human rights, to Communism, Marxism, Socialism, feminism, unions and do with making conditions of living and working better. To remove oppression and slavery has been an agenda number one. It is decisions of those in power how the ‘weak’ are publicly spoken of and treated. How those who have been demanding rights to people via ideological movements have been seen in public eye and treated. List of fighting for social reform is long as is black listing. To say something is Marxist is to curse, still. Communism has been used to gain power in ways that do not stand a light of day. I claim it is not fault of Communism itself or Marx as many like to think. Do you think Jesus Christ is responsible for slaughter done in his name? Surely you believe in him and in his existence? Cursing Communism in a way that Marxist ideas are those which drag us down and prevent society from developing or hypnotise the masses to act violently towards the good bourgeois people is a norm. Preventing capitalists from exploiting and abusing workers and societies is less an issue, the main cause and plainly put reason for labour fight is to make ends meet, for everybody to

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get their fair share. How is that bad an idea? What is bad in stopping ill from happening to workers? What is bad in being fair and getting what is rightfully yours and live a decent life? Is that what is bad about it, sharing? Capitalism can be good and it has been and Socialism has worked in Scandinavia, never forget. Welfare system would not be without capitalist ways of making wealth. It can serve good for all mankind if it is used in democratic and honest way. There is always a side to making money: how honest can it be and how money-making is regulated play important part. How does morals work in this picture and how does a person’s morals develop in this system of ours? How much morals is due to in what kind of culture one grows up? Again a hugely relevant point.

9.3 Business as usual?

Is Capitalism as we know it destroying us? Economy is vital within which nations and people function. It has a role of making and giving value. How economy and markets work very much tell in what kind of world we live in. Should markets be less open or more free is a nonstop argument. Most people seek to become rich meaning people want to possess more than is necessary. Common desire is to maintain sustainable standard of living and be able to consume, have. Consuming is almost equal to living, a way to live and some think that way should be protected, that way we should define our worth, by how much we can own. If there is an economic recession on its way people like to stop using money as usual? Clearly not. It is common news to tell how consumers behave which statistics show we consume more and more. How much Christmas sales have made yearly and what are expectations of the markets next year, when does Christmas clearance begin and so forth. Is this fault of Capitalism itself? What does Capitalism do when we use our money and money which we do not have? Buying is a big part of living. To have money is almost synonym to living since most everything has a price and we are depended on food supply, transportation, housing, clothing, entertainment and we work to get all this for us and for our family. We are unhappy when we don’t have what we want. It is easy to blame good old Capitalism. It is common accusation of anti­-Capitalists to want to abolish our current economic system altogether. That would mean a drastic altering of way of life for which few would be ready. Anti­-Capitalists claim capitalists exploit workers and consumers for few to make huge profits. Anti­-Capitalism could be called anti­-profitism thinking money, private ownership and financial exchange are the root of all evil. Laws to regulate the market which serve the wealthy are there to make justice happen. Anti-­capitalists ground their claims on facts that economy practiced now leaves most of the people in the world standing outside the fancy restaurant. How can economy and money itself be accused of functioning poorly and would any other economic system work any better? It is vital to question businessmen and their ethics. It is

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compulsory, it is also important to understand the role of a consumer. You feel guilty? Good.

To comprehend economy takes many sides to consider and details to know. How well we know what we consume and what kind of an effect it has? Money is a complex tool of interaction, laws of living without are harsh. At the moment it seems more and more vulnerable you are the less you have and we are on the mercy of greedy merchants and freed of our own. It is no wonder Capitalism as a whole raises enraged actions and emotions, but usually when we are on the losing side. We are bound to money, like it or not, bound to banks and power relations. Who gets punished in this picture is the one with no means. To become more self­-contained would be a sustainable way to see the problem of economy and how to survive it. Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and capital of goods, and the production of services and goods for profit in a market economy. In industrialized world Capitalism is a dominating economic system and it does and should not go without criticism for it being unstable and unreliable which many drastic downfalls prove. To make a striving economy business needs to be regulated. Capitalist system can be centrally planned meaning decisions regarding production and investment are embodied by a plan formulated by a central authority and one way of doing business is to have it unplanned, uncontrolled. Controlled economy is practiced in Soviet style states. Socialist market economy which for example People’s Republic of China has and is based on state-owned enterprises and an open market economy [1.]

Great Britain has a history of strong class system which still holds on leaving people at the bottom poor and situation is worsening rabidly. There is the culture of calling things and people Marxist as a sign of traitorous critical behavior, those who act against financial abuse get to hear this. It is interesting what Marxism has become to mean and how delusional culture of pointing the finger, calling and naming in the name of power and fear is. Culture of putting down and dragging into dirt which also is something very British. Which and who is dirt and what is something higher to aspire is due to wealth, position, religion, opinions, profit, class, networks, sex and gender. It has got to do with creating public opinion to have the public have fear and believe in what those in power say. Directing and manipulating the opinion of the most, who are not interested or educated but listen, there is the general opinion which leads the crowds and we are afraid.

Knowledge concerning political bias and press: what is written, how critical or neutral media can, is able and should be. Skepticism towards media and power elite is understandable and necessary as money is concentrated so are corporations. Suspicion over what is being told is more than a recommendation. There are motives to share information, motives other than letting people know the facts, educating sure, other than practicing freedom of speech? Being neutral is the ideal and an open informant of what lies behind the curtain. There is no freedom of speech as long as press which is listened to is owned by big money corporations and entertainment which is big business is at front. How much can the public influence on what we are given and shown on media, how much advertising is necessary? What has survival got to do with all this or creating distraction? How will we survive the media and business worlds and minds? How to abolish inequality and brainwash which goes on and on? Would Marx

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have something to contribute for modern men and women and what would that be? Who is being silenced and is there information that is not shared equally or do the most even want to learn? Marxism is in strange light in this fight, marginal and dangerous. In the light of neoliberal profit­making which has similarities with totalitarianism and Fascism what is bad can be difficult to know at first. What kind of knowledge public has on political ideologies and how much knowledge is true? [2.] Alarming is that they, the public, are not interested in politics or the facts, especially the youth lack interest and they do not have basic information on of how politics is done and how does it affect other than in the immediate future.

9.4 Fossil object the one who has been given place of a glorified subject: A farewell to Le Coup de téte, the hot head.

The hot head is Zinedine Zidane a well-known footballer that lost his temper during a game and punched another player on the chest with his head. He got upset for being insulted on the field in the World Cup [3.] He would rather die than apologize, said Zidane 2010. Italian player Marco Materazzi had insulted Zidane’s mother during a game. Getting upset and dealing with it in different ways is politics, diplomacy and interestingly linked to gender, nationality, traditions and change. Football is known to be an emotional game where big money moves and emotion are strong. Showing this kind of violent act is part of the show, for viewers it is real, for media it is delicious. How angry can one get and how can one show anger in a public place or anywhere? To bear insults, hardship, the filth that comes raining over. Should we be taught to take it, taught to take it like it is filth and unnecessary hate, react to it by giving filth and hate back, place and accept aggression as everyday occurrance and as a test of character? Hate is demonic and it eats one up therefore it has to be strictly ruled, discussed to get over with, understood why it happens, but how to punish for hating, because we all feel it?

What is liberation in the Modern world and is the idea of liberation linked to the idea of Modern? What do we liberate from as we live in a free world? New liberal political actions which like to have light of the good empowerment and shining in positivity. What do they, these forces of good, gurus and goods want to liberate and how do we feel ourselves liberated or freed under constant threats and in ever complicated world? What is hate in neoliberalism, in making winnings after winnings? Some people lose miserably. What is liberating to be and what to make liberal reality in this kind of atmosphere, where does liberation happen, when one becomes wealthy? It is question of choice and luck, of class and sex. Freedom is not there to be taken or had, it is felt. Consuming may make us free for a moment as it is a drug. Luxury around make us feel part of the elite. Liberation happens when it is spoken about, liberation reveals itself when we dare to speak up and say no. Beginning of liberation happens when there is freedom from judgment

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and will to speak up for anyone, for the justice of all. When we have knowledge to know what to say, certainty. My question is, is freedom in how we act and live? Who has freedom to choose? Media makes it so that speaking up becomes a spectacle which itself says at least to act like you know what to say with added emotion. When to call oneself liberal, to take liberty of defining oneself as something is to know who one is, belong to a conceptual frame of a thinking aware individual who has feeling of self­-worth, who has been given that feeling and right. One chooses to belong or one is manipulated to belong or one has no choice but to belong or one is entitled to belong. Feeling emotional about social injustices which happens to others, to you, being influenced by what happens anywhere and to what extend injustices in the world impact life anywhere is part of my question. One has to know when it is time to act on behalf of the other. Take liberty to act on behalf of someone is also acting for yourself. To become free happens when one can stand up and speak up without fear and is able to put one’s ego aside.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China economy 12.3.2014 2.https://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2009/08/mehdi-hasan-bbc-wing-bias-corporation  22.10.2013 article by Mehdi Hasan about corporal prejudices against Marxism
3.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1254630/Zinedine-Zidane-say-sorry-Marco-Materazzi-World-Cup-headbutt-France-legend-admits-I-die.html 26.6.2013

Zinedine Zidane will never say sorry to Marco Materazzi for World Cup headbutt as France legend admits: I would rather die

By Sportsmail Reporter UPDATED: 14:43 GMT, 1 March 2010