reply to post by ::.mika.::
The problem with communication is that you need consent for it to happen. Advertising and imposing is often violent and practically means that you
want to control someone by filling him in with "your" information. And information, of course - (in)forms!
It is typical for emotions and ideas to project - they are projections themselves. Like, if you are happy, you'd like all to be happy. Or if you are
disturbed you'll like all to be disturbed, that is, you envy those who are not disturbed, and so on...
If people who are in government feel threatened, they project this insecurity on whole society and the result is a police or totalitarian state.
Everyone becomes a threat because of this feeling of "being threatened". Because it projects, it assumes that everyone is feeling the same, and
therefore taking measures to prevent any preventive actions from others - it's a vicious circle indeed.
You say I'm making you think.
Let's look at this from a methodological point of view.
How to make someone think without wishing to impose your will and establish control?
There are two opposite approaches. One is adopted by the existing global (historical) community. It is about offering finished product which will then
be consumed. What you offer people is digested stuff. Such goods are for one time use only because they get consumed.
The other approach is to provoke people into abandoning their protocol thinking by deconstructing the process of causality. That is art.
Because art is in this manner offering product which cannot be consumed, there is no market for such stuff. Energy is indeed in abundance and
merchants won't bother to have anything to do with it. Or else, everybody will be going to church, or to museums and galleries, or reading books!
Products of art are source of energy and that energy is free. It is also called knowledge. Because it is free, nobody bothers.
But those who care about art have a surplus energy at their disposal and can affect society by simply meddling with it. A work of art will always
produce discontinuation in a given pattern, and society is always about patterns.
When you create a discontinuation in a pattern those who are affected by patterns only will suddenly find themselves in a situation in which they have
to use their own resources (be creative) because the inertia which was carrying them suddenly disappears!
This is how you make people think.
It is a kind of sabotage. You pull the rag beneath them. Give them an unexpected answer to their premeditated questions.
This kind of behavior is strategically superior because someone who is acting in an unconditioned way always has initiative. He dictates a new logic,
which is destroying the existing logic. In art and in philosophy it is called deconstruction. It can also be dangerous, because those who are
dominated by feeling of being threatened will react to that as to a threat.
So you have to be very careful when doing so.