Jacob Appelbaum in Germany

[brian carroll]

// more realistic context of post-1960s worldview:

strange-read-reply function, to paraphrase:

In practice, it is pretty obvious that most practitioners of civil
> disobedience believe they are above the law, that they usually *are* above
> the law, and that in particular [users of illegal drugs: cocaine, meth,
> heroin, acid, ~pot; once alchohol] believed [they were] above the law, and
> [perhaps will be] shocked to find that [they are] not.
>
> There might be some sincere practitioners of civil disobedience,
> [including drug users and dealers], big heroes of the [counterculture and
> its ideological] brigade....


or:


> In practice, it is pretty obvious that most practitioners of civil
> disobedience believe they are above the law, that they usually *are* above
> the law, and that in particular [psychiatric prescribing of harmful pills:
> "anti-psychotics", "antidepressants" etc] believed [they were] above the
> law, and [perhaps will be] shocked to find that [they are] not.
>

> There might be some sincere practitioners of civil disobedience, but
> [psychiatrists] was not, and the big heroes of the [political takeover]
> brigade....
>


it is the problem of analysis: focus on the person who takes a gun
and shoots people, not on the pills they were prescribe, the failed
institutions surrounding them, etc. too simplistic, inaccurate model
does not distinguish symptoms from disease, allows it to continue

(lose accurate, empirical logical reasoning, no way to address this,
thus loss of language, no matter encrypted comms, this situation;
because it cannot be modeled or related to in realistic framework,
and thus short-circuits into power games and political engineering,
which is inherently violent and leads to those terms of resolution)

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