{"id":379298,"date":"2018-10-02T00:54:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T23:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lost-in-the-theatre-of-data-dada-and-emotional-manipulation\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T23:54:11","slug":"lost-in-the-theatre-of-data-dada-and-emotional-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lost-in-the-theatre-of-data-dada-and-emotional-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in the Theatre of Data, Dada, and Emotional Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is not only information that they need \u2013 in this Age of Fact, information often dominates their attention and overwhelms their capacities to assimilate it\u2026What they need, and what they feel they need, is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves\u2026what may be called the sociological imagination.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0C. Wright Mills, <em>The Sociological Imagination<\/em>, 1959<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Our own death is indeed, unimaginable,\u2019 Freud said in 1915, \u2018and whenever we make the attempt to imagine it we can perceive that we really survive as spectators.\u2019\u00a0 It is thus the very habit of military situations that turn them theatrical.\u00a0 And it is their utter unthinkableness: it is impossible for a participant to believe that he is taking part in such murderous proceedings in his own character.\u00a0 The whole thing is too grossly farcical, perverse, cruel, and absurd to be credited as a form of \u2018real life.\u2019\u00a0 Seeing warfare as theatre provides a psychic escape for the participant: with a sufficient sense of theatre, he can perform his duties without implicating his \u2018real\u2019 self and without impairing his innermost conviction that the world is still a rational place.\u00a0 Just before the attack on Loos, Major Pilditch testifies to \u2018a queer new feeling these last few days, intensified last night.\u00a0 A sort of feeling of unreality as if I were&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/10\/lost-in-the-theatre-of-data-dada-and-emotional-manipulation\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not only information that they need \u2013 in this Age of Fact, information often dominates their attention and overwhelms their capacities to assimilate it\u2026What they need, and what they feel they need, is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}