Tag Archives: Hermann Göring

Tuesday, December 1, 2020
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Guns, butter, firestarter

This was bound to happen since Reface emerged. Bojan Požar could finally and literally become “the firestarter, twisted firestarter”. The app, sadly, does a so-so job. It’s still a cool story bro tho.

To return to the guns vs. butter debate, which rages these days. Firestarter track is from The Prodigy’s 1997 album The Fat Of The Land, which has an adapted Göring quote on the fold-out booklet: “Steel? We have no butter, but I ask you – Would you rather have butter or guns? Shall we import lard or steel? Let me tell you, preparedness makes us powerful… Butter merely makes us fat. Lard?”

Naci punk afera from 1981, anyone? Band’s composer Liam Howlett had this to say about the quote: “You can imagine what the press have been like, ’Oh the Prodigy are Nazis…’ All this crap, you know. To simply answer that question: yes, the quote is a Nazi quote and no, we’re not Nazis. Obviously we’ve got two black guys in the band. So to even suggest that is totally brainless anyway. To be honest, that quote is like me using a sample. I look upon that quote as like a sample. I take it out of its original context, put it in my own context and it means something completely different. I look at that quote and that’s like a b-boy quote. That’s like someone out of a hip-hop scene could have said that.”

The funny thing is: it would be exactly someone like Bojan Požar to accuse them of being Nazis.

So what we need are new words, notions, concepts. Yes, even for Janez Janša.

P. S. Požar je, frankly, bolj shitstirring špeckahla kot karkoli drugega, vendar je njegova niša ravno v tem, da t. i. #MSM dejansko so pristranski in se ne lotevajo zadev, ki se jih v skladu z lastno formo loteva sam.



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Saturday, October 10, 2020
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Imunopolitika

Na včerajšnji seji Sveta za nacionalno varnost so prikladno združili obravnavo epidemioloških razmer in nezakonitih migracij, kar nesramežljivo izpričuje perspektivo, po kateri narodu, ki je telo, grozi okužba od zunaj. “Imunopolitika v stanju panike,” bi dejala Plant in Land v Smetnjakovem prevodu Kiberpozitivno.

George Mosse v Nacionalizmu in seksualnosti zapiše (jebatga, slovenski prevod je v knjižnici): “Racism branded the outsider, making him inevitably a member of the inferior race, wherever this was possible, readily recognized as a carrier of infection threatening the health of society and the nation. Above all racism was a scavenger ideology, harnessing to its banner the fears and hopes of bourgeois Europe.”

Da je omenjeno sejo napovedal ravno Aleš Hojs, lik, ki nevede, spontano citira Göringove in Goebbelsove prilike o maslu in topovih, nas je sprva privedlo do takšnega fb zapisa:

Nazis are returning. Nature is healing. “They” are the virus.

Po nekaj minutah smo – excuse the reality show dramatic tone – post izbrisali. Naci analogije so vselej lazy in cheesy, naj se v danem trenutku zdijo še tako na mestu.

Obviously, the situation is still fucked up. In morda gre bolj za asimptoto – excuse the retarded math level – kot vzporednice. Med branjem nekega pasusa Foucaultovega Rojstva biopolitike smo se spomnili marčevske kampanje “Hvala, ker ste” iz časa prvega vala epidemije, ki je v skladu z generičnostjo zahvale in slogana razkazovala generične (shutter stock patriotism) podobe zdravstvenega osebja, gasilcev, policistov itd., vseh tistih, ki so v času prvega vala skrbeli za prislovično zdravje in varnost državljanov. Plosk plosk so si, ker so ostali doma, prislužili tudi slednji. Kot je bilo opaženo, je kampanja delovala nenavadno, saj ni šlo za zahvalo vlade, temveč stranke SDS. Podoben občutek, kot je znano, vas daje tudi, če spremljate vladne kanale na družabnih omrežjih.

Tu pride na vrsto omenjeni pasus iz Rojstva biopolitike (jebatga, slovenski prevod je v knjižnici): “The totalitarian state is not the eighteenth century administrative state, the nineteenth century Polizeistaat pushed to the limit, it is not the administrative state, the bureaucratized nineteenth century state pushed to its limits. The totalitarian state is something else. We should not look for its principle in the ‘statifying’ or ‘statified’ governmentality born in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; we should look for it in a non-state governmentality, precisely in what could be called a governmentality of the party. The party, this quite extraordinary, very curious, and very new organization, this very new governmentality of the party which appeared in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century is probably /…/ at the historical origin of something like totalitarian regimes, of something like Nazism, fascism, or Stalinism.”

And lest we forget: this party is quite obsessed with origins.



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