.11. Enslavement blues - We are all cultural prostitutes

The perception of time:
The timeline, hours chopped into minutes into seconds into the measurements on living. Life is lived on the basis of time consumed. The standardisation of time in the 19th century was well in tune with the industrialisation's maximum usage of labour power, the need to increase profit. We learn to accept the fact that days are nothing but blocks of time to be consumed. The schematics of living is nurtured from the institutionalised learning facilities also known as schools, also known as breeding grounds for future slaves.

The perception of the room:
The working place, the living place, the consumption place, the enjoyment place; all life reduced to cubicles determining the role you have to play in order to live. Our economical/cultural settings of building spae has not only been reduced to the mere storage of commodities (home) but also to the production of life (theme parks and movie theatres), the accumulation of capital (work) and the consumption of the same capital (malls and chainstores and so on). Living has been reduced to the economy of space.

The perception of self:
Having life reduced to the time/space setting of consumer capitalism means that you are, no matter how hard you try, a part of the commodity abundance that circulates around us and as long as we are living in a system where this is the "law", this relationship will never change. We are paying to live in a system that is based on the usage of humans, we get used to the realisation that the objects that we produce take on more meaning than the producers, we get used to feeling alienated and used. We get survival sickness.

-The Black Mask Sub-committee of Violence and passion.