The Bureaucracy of Margins
People are unequal, but in a society in which tyranical rule is to be avoided it is mandatory for equilibrium to be achieved between all members of the society, no matter the disparity between them. In addition, it is mandatory for a single individual to have power over the entire system, the capacity to destabilize it. Thus, equality in society is achieved through a state of perpetual instability.
The purpose of the Bureaucracy of Margins is to ensure equity between all patients of the Ataraxia Foundation. We preside over law and justice. We pass laws specifically designed to render one group or another disenfranchised in some way. In the end, every person becomes disenfranchised by the law, but each person wants what freedoms the others have. As a consequence, each person and each group develops a strict "us/them" dichotomy, no matter how false.
People attempt to defect from one group to another to enjoy freedoms, they attempt to force themselves into certain freedoms, and they lash out at anybody attempting to work towards the freedoms they already possess. In this way, equality on all levels is felt. Each group has equal disenfranchisement collateral to their condition, and each individual has the power to trigger catastrophic destabilization between forces (rioting, hate crimes, etc.). The world continues on its way not because everybody thinks they're equal, but because they know they're not and believe that this is an artificial condition.
Preservation of balance in society comes only through a process of mutually-assured marginalization.
11/03/2006 05:53:00 PM
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Some are more equal than others. I'm so unstable that I really feel super equal! And I love to jump around from one thing to another, like frolicking. Why fix something that is not broken, why fight for a freedom you already have? Maybe if we don't use it, we lose it. But we only appreciate it after we lose it, or think someone else has it. Hate is the great equalizer, it makes others less equal, thus us more equal. I miss your place, but hell is pretty warm and cozy. The Devil thinks everyone is equal because he hates them all the same. He hates with such love! Please don't dismiss me as a patient, I can learn from both of you.
All who are associated with the Foundation are patients. Patient Zero is identified as Josephine S. Blick, esq. the Fourth. Patient One is identified as Pansi. You are identified as Patient Two.
All are patients, because the Foundation heals. We are the curative balm to all of life's woes. You can trust us. We told you so.
Oh, that's what they mean when they say, "You're the balm!" I thought they were saying "You're the bomb!" And, hey, Josephine Blick is the fourth what?
What the hell (literally) have I stumbled upon?! I thought Lammy was dead!
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