Submitted by Lachlan Plain on Thu, 11/05/2006 - 10:41.
I wasn't necessarily thinking of Liberal Inc as a political party within an independent nation state. Perhaps more of a privatised wing of TNC, TNCs' 'deputy sherif' in the South Pacific, an insignificant wing of a bigger conglomoration, a remnant of a twentieth century federated nation state.
So what state is democracy in in 2025? Is there still the hyperbole of democracy and freedom? The rhetoric? Do governements still stand for ellection? Even if quasi/staged elections. Is there still a facade of nationalism/democracy/etc?
And the question, "How does the fisherman know about his wife's death?"...
How does one sense the world through Senseless? Does one sense? I suspose, judging by its name, one doesn't. But perhaps one has a kind of ineffectial omnisience, like a disembodied consciousness suspended over the world in a solid glass bubble...or perhaps the murder of his wife is something that comes to him in a dream, one of those really lucid dreams, so there is still not certainty as to whether it is something he's actually picking up from the world psychosymantically (is that the right word?) or just a projection of his subconscious...
Pinning down the sense of Senseles is integral to finding a voice for the monologue:
The experience of being suspended in a bodyless limbo. Thoughts without the concreteness of the physical world to challenge them with. A dreamy aquatic suspension.
The fisherman is someone who's very existence - leading up to being trapped in Senseless - is entirely rooted in the physical...in the everyday struggle with the elements to make a living, to scrape together the bare essentials, food in belly, roof over head, family...he has a certain peace that comes with age and sitting out at sea for days on end with no-one but a mute son...then he is dragged into an insubstantial, esoteric limbo by chance and those that power the power.
Just some thoughts in response to Olivia's comments:
I wasn't necessarily thinking of Liberal Inc as a political party within an independent nation state. Perhaps more of a privatised wing of TNC, TNCs' 'deputy sherif' in the South Pacific, an insignificant wing of a bigger conglomoration, a remnant of a twentieth century federated nation state.
So what state is democracy in in 2025? Is there still the hyperbole of democracy and freedom? The rhetoric? Do governements still stand for ellection? Even if quasi/staged elections. Is there still a facade of nationalism/democracy/etc?
And the question, "How does the fisherman know about his wife's death?"...
How does one sense the world through Senseless? Does one sense? I suspose, judging by its name, one doesn't. But perhaps one has a kind of ineffectial omnisience, like a disembodied consciousness suspended over the world in a solid glass bubble...or perhaps the murder of his wife is something that comes to him in a dream, one of those really lucid dreams, so there is still not certainty as to whether it is something he's actually picking up from the world psychosymantically (is that the right word?) or just a projection of his subconscious...
Pinning down the sense of Senseles is integral to finding a voice for the monologue:
The experience of being suspended in a bodyless limbo. Thoughts without the concreteness of the physical world to challenge them with. A dreamy aquatic suspension.
The fisherman is someone who's very existence - leading up to being trapped in Senseless - is entirely rooted in the physical...in the everyday struggle with the elements to make a living, to scrape together the bare essentials, food in belly, roof over head, family...he has a certain peace that comes with age and sitting out at sea for days on end with no-one but a mute son...then he is dragged into an insubstantial, esoteric limbo by chance and those that power the power.