Micah M. White

The blackspot points us toward an alternative present, a viable vision for transforming our communities into lush forests of homegrown culture, unhomogenized by corporate toxins.
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Our momentum is growing. Bush is done, consumerism is collapsing and the patricians are dancing for plebeian votes. On the horizon appear presidential candidates who claim to be the source of our strength, but who are merely the symptom of the revolutionary thrust picking up again in America.
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By turning members into consumers who involuntarily advertise to their friends, Facebook hoped to extract profit from social interactions. However, by commercializing friendships, Facebook has irrevocably destroyed its image. No longer a fun, harmless place to hang out, Facebook has become just another commercial enterprise.
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I often imagine what it would be like to wake up to a clean mental environment, one that it is without the toxins of advertising. But then how can someone expect to maintain a clean mental environment in today's modern world?
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As my experience as an activist grows, one fact has become increasingly unavoidable: financial freedom is a prerequisite for radical thought and action. Without a source of income that does not require an ethical capitulation it is difficult, if not impossible, to maintain the culture jamming ethos.
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The era in which we live is described by Heidegger as the "Epoch of the Object."
This means that all beings (plants, animals, humans, gods, ideas, values) are taken as only objects. This is a flattening that explains the utter emptiness and desolation of our world.
The epoch of the object denies us access to Being (the source of all beings). We no longer question, "Why is there something rahter than nothing?" because we believe all beings are "made" by technology.
The epoch of the object also means that all thought has become "conceptual." Concepts are treated as objects therefore all conceptual thought is grounded in the object.