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"throughout the "civilized" world the construction of stockpiles of objects has brought with it the complementary process of stockpiles of people - the line, waiting, traffic jams, concentration, the camp. That is "mass production," not in the sense of a massive production or for use by the masses, but the production of the masses. The masses as the final product of all sociality, and, at the same time, as putting an end to sociality, because these masses that one wants us to believe are the social, are on the contrary the site of the implosion of the social. The masses are the increasingly dense sphere in which the whole social comes to be imploded, and to be devoured in an uninterrupted process of simulation."
Jean Baudrillard there again. Ok so, an explosion/implosion paradigm, like a stars death, a natural process, radiating at one point, then at a later time, imploding and absorbing radiation. Socialism simulates the social or is an order of simulacrum of the social (it masks the absence of a profound reality). Socialism is the black hole to the social that has/is imploding. The vacuum left by the absence of the social is filled with its implosion. We no longer care for the elderly in our own home, the emptiness is the vacuum. It is filled by the black hole, the retirement community, the implosion of the elderly. The elderly, with the collapse of the social and consequent implosion, are no longer home to care for the children while the parents work. The child vacuum of child care, day care centers, the implosion of child care. Parents once worked and produced, "Absorbed and ejected at fixed times by their work place" now however "the real of production, has disappeared." Parents "work" and like the fission of a star or the weak force of gravity the implosion continues inexorably, the return arc of a parabola. The vacuum of work, the absence of parenthood, the simulacra of sex education (it masks and denatures a profound reality) a natural extension of institutionalised day care and the subsequent "public" education. The implosion of parenting. The school system absorbing the radiation loosed by parents decades ago (the antiquated behavior of parents, mock outrage at sex ed classes etc.) Abstinence as a rule. The collapse of motherhood, motherhood vacuum, the instructional panel on a tampon package, the inhumanity of nature laid bare. The implosion bending light and time, accelerated and phase shifted. The very notion of it is absurd and yet it indisputably does occur. The reels of a movie changing over seamlessly and no one in the audience notices. A yawning gulf. The entropy of society. A complete recontextualization of every social concept. Accelerated implosion of energy. But where does it go? To a point. Incredible density. Mass density, mass production, mass population, mass culture, mass consumption, incredible mass. You cannot even purchase individual products anymore, it is all "synergy", you consume an entire lifestyle or brand. "Whole" foods, organic coffee, harm free textiles, "family" size, entire ideologies are purchased simultaneously. Like the frequencies in a beam of light simultaneous and invisible to the naked eye. The entire knowledge of the universe compressed into a microchip. Mass information. Your entire life experience, date of death and cause, compressed into your DNA, a indefatigable speed limit on your own ambition, compressed into inert amino acids. The vacuum decoded the human genome. The whole of "potential energy", every living thing on the planet fits on the head of a pin, science doing theology one better, yet again.
