From: "Ja'far Railton" <railton-AT-dial.pipex.com> Subject: Re: Homeopathic thread is relevant; think again Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:20:19 -0000 Whatever you done wherever you been... just say no to T-shirts! -----Original Message----- From: Charles Gavette <chaosmosis-AT-hotmail.com> To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu <deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Date: 11 December 1998 2:09 Subject: Homeopathic thread is relevant; think again >It's time to say something. In September of 1995, I was on the >free-speech square of an American university countering the >priest-clowns in accusing passersby of coming short of their glories. It >is a good way for the religious-industrial complex of capitalism to see >who raises their heads above the crowd. I was using the only weapons I >had: D&G's philosophy. I was inexperienced, yet each time I >counter-actualized them during their evangelizations, I learned >something. They eventually came to know me as someone who was not buying >their operation. I left for awhile and came back to the city. In March >of 1997, I was diagnosed with Hepatitus B virus. The person who handed >my papers to me always had spoken in an unemotional, monotone voice, and >this time was no exception. This happened at a plasma center where I >would usually take a book with me to read while donating plasma. I am at >this moment wearing a hand-lettered t-shirt that I just completed last >night. The front is plain. On the back it reads "Anti-Oedipus: >Capitalism and Schizophrenia....Gilles Deleuze ..Felix Guattari." I have >also read the book in the plasma center when donating. The HBV diagnosis >was handed to me on March 13, not simply ironic for being my ex-wife's >birthday, but more profoundly for being the date that the constituion of >the state I am referring to was ratified. Among the text of this >constitution there are a few lines about speech. It is written in bronze >and displayed at the state capitol about one-half mile (in a direct >line) from the plasma center. > Just a few days ago I finally had found some evidence that adds a >piece to the puzzle. It was a report from 1996 about a nursing home in >Ohio and a New York City hospital as having an outbreak of HBV. >Epidemiologists concluded that it was the spring-loaded fingerstick >devices that had transmitted the virus. This sets the stage for some >speculation. I will never perhaps know for sure if the virus was given >to me deliberately or not. Yet if one thinks that it is impossible for >the priest to get to your veins, think again. As for the homeopathy or >plant medicine or quantum zones, rest assured that if you were in my >shoes, you would be investigating these things. I have studied and have >been a reader and medicinal plant practitioner for well over 25 >years(non-professional). Since I have refused to ever let anyone >penetrate me again, does anyone here think that it is not relevant to >talk of such things on this list? The coils of a serpent are more >complex than a mole's burrow. In the societies of control, there is >experimentation going on. I know for a fact that I had the virus long >before they told me that I did. It's easy to dump out plasma and to wait >until the acute stage has run its course. This may well have happened. I >could have gotten it from the fingerstick device, it was within the same >year and the incubation period(about three months) seems to coincide >with other events. These "outbreak" of disease, are they not also >planned? Could they not also be planned? This is perfect cover for more >covert operations.......Anyway, one will never convince me that talking >about quantum plant medicine has no bearing on this discussion. Since I >live out-of-doors, since I refuse to let this system further impoverish >me, since I no longer play their game, and since plants are our direct >link and heritage to the spending star, freely available for aesthetics, >medicine and some comfort in an economic system gone > berserk, and since philosophy such as Deleuze and Guattari's may be the >perfect mate for caring for the self(empirical plant medicine?) >considering the religious-medical-industrial complex and many of its >treacheries, I think that it is a reasonable topic to talk about. I feel >like the victim sacrificed to the immunization movement that is now >picking up momentum in the U.S and around the world. Eradication of >hepatitus A and B by vaccinating infants and those adults who have not >yet been exposed to the virus. What about me? This disease that is so >closely linked to promiscuity and drug abuse, to those who society calls >worthless street trash. The very person who used to put the needle in my >arm wears a tee-shirt that says "Junkie Killer." Our eyes have actually >met on the street as we passed and he wearing this tee-shirt. Would >anyone else like to attempt to apply D&G's philosophy on the levels that >I am working? No problem, there is plenty of derelict space where I >stay, and it's rent-free. > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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