The man who is free to obey the law is not free
The man who is free to do as he is told is not free
The man who is free to live according to the norms of a sociality created to ensure the thriving of slaves is not free
The man who knows that this is the case is a conflicted beast
And he is dangerous.
Q: What are banks for?
A: To make money.
Q: For the customers?
A: For the banks.
Q: How do banks make money?
A: Customers lend it to them, and they lend it to other customers, each time charging interest.
Q: How much interest?
A: It depends on the bank. They set the rate as a rate of profit.
Q: Why isn’t it my profit? It’s my money after all.
A: You make a profit as long as you don’t withdraw your money: usually around half of one percent.
Q: Why do I need a bank at all?
A: You have to pay for goods and services that will not take cash.
Q: Why won’t they take cash? It seems a system designed to guarantee the banks a profit.
A:
Q: And why would I need a bank if I didn’t want to withdraw my money?
A:
Q: Hello? Why would a bank not want me to withdraw my money?
A: Because if you withdraw it they can’t lend it to anyone else.
Q: And if I remove my money which has been lent to someone else?
A: The bank will give you someone else’s money.
Q: But suppose that person wanted his/hers too? What if everyone wanted his/her money at once?
A: It’s the theory of banking practice that they never would.
Adapted from G. Edward Griffin. The Creature from Jekyll Island and Punch.
Because expression gives form to content.
“Under the regime of the norm, nothing is normal and everything must be normalized. What functions here is a positive paradigm of power. The norm produces all that is, insofar as the norm is itself, one says, the ens realissimum. Whatever does not belong to its mode of unveiling is not, and whatever is not cannot belong to its mode of unveiling. Under the regime of the norm, negativity is never recognized as such, but reduced to a simple default of the norm, a hole to be taken back up into the biopolitical tissue. Negativity, this power that is not supposed to exist, is quite logically abandoned to a traceless disappearance. Not without reason, since the Imaginary Party is the Outside of the world without Outside, the essential discontinuity lodged at the heart of a world rendered continuous.” Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War.
Derelict Space 