Anarchy Does Not Come From Power
Room Three: Anarchistic Empowerment
This room is a graphic depiction of methods being used to chip away at
society's rules today. Some are more successful than others, but all are real
and have been attempted.
The room is filled with red light, red from anger and despair filling
rejected lives. Alternative media fills a table in the center of the room,
beneath a pirate flag. You sit on an Ammunition box as bench while leafing
through titles as "get even," "The ultimate Cellular modification manual,"
and "the terrorist's handbook. "
Sounds fill the room. Squawking Citizens band radio and cassette tapes of
Timothy Leary and Ray Manzarak preaching cyberpunk and beatnik theories of
mind expansion become apparently visible, while reading files of how to make
drugs, among the scattered wealth of information.
You can see a monitor in the right corner of the room that is watching
the TV in the sheltered room. Here you recognize that you are watching
someone else's opinion on TV, which you may agree with or disagree with,
understanding the idea of who's viewpoint is watched.
There is also a monitor in the left corner of the room, which is a
computer monitor. The CPU flashes two per minute messages at you. If you are
bold enough to touch the keyboard and disrupt the messages, you learn that
there is a computer bulletin board here. This is the most immediate form of
information available today and only those who have access to computers and
current technology can utilize it. The gun hidden beneath the table is ready
for a confrontation with the one in the sheltered room, not as nice looking,
but just as deadly.
There are three loaves of bread in this room, along with an empty milk
container and an empty beer bottle. This suggests that the occupant might be
interested in sustenance rather than gluttony, and that unlike the sheltered
room someone here is trying to eat rather than fast.
I believe that this consumption is going to produce a redistribution of
power in America. as witnessed in the recent elections. The under represented
are growing in masses and will soon be the majority, and will make our
leaders admit to the problems they've created and allowed to continue
existing. Lack of respect leads to hostility, and consciousness as a
political act is step one to overcoming barriers of invisible geography.
- Anarchy
- Jolly Roger
- CB Radio
- Video Monitor
- Monitoring Monitoring
- Bench
- Information Table
- BBS
- Computer
- Cock
ories
- Anarchy
