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<p><p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">The Fact that You Want "Good" or "Real" Democracy is Irrelevant—The Impact Considers Democracy as a Forced Choice, Either We Have Democracy or Terror-Such a Discussion Forecloses a Reconception of Politix<br>Jodi Dean 3, Prof at Hobart and William Smith, Post Politics and the Technological Fetish,<br>The workshop questions …brutalities of capitalist globalization.</p><p><br class="spacer"></p><p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">The procedure of anti-colonialist struggle the affirmative deploys denies the ability to deploy difference as a source of power – only the class struggle universalizes against the structures of oppression in order to destroy the structures of capitalism<br>Zizek 4 [Slavoj, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, September 17, 2004. <span class="wikiexternallink" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; "><a class="wikimodel-freestanding" href="http://www.lacan.com/zizeksomewhere" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; "><span class="wikigeneratedlinkcontent" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; ">http://www.lacan.com/zizeksomewhere</span></a></span>]<br>The first thing to note … struggle with an antagonist.</p><p><br class="spacer"></p><p style="text-align: left; ">We offer the following ethical framework: you have an a priori ethical obligation to reject the plan if it is inconsistent with a revolutionary ethic against capitalism.<br>Zizek 2k [Slavoj, Revolution at the Gates, Verso, pp. 6-9]<br>In February 1917 ….the tsarist reactionaries will win.</p><p><br class="spacer"></p><p style="text-align: left; ">Capitalism is quickly approaching an apocalyptic zero point – the drive to avoid the scenarios of the 1ac is part of a fetishistic disavowal strategy to hide the fact that war and antagonism are inevitable – the battle to avoid their advantages has already been lost. <br>Zizek 10,[ Slavoj, “Living in the End Times” pg: x-xi]<br>The underlying premise …relies on a fantasmatic vision. </p><p><br class="spacer"></p><p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">Capitalism is based on a system of beliefs. Breaking the fetishism of capital ethically distances us from capital and breaks the system.<br>Johnston 4<br>Johnston, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, 2004 <br>Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, December v9 i3 p259 page infotrac<br>Perhaps the absence …comforting fiction ("Capitalist commodity ism or the truth? I choose ism"). </p></p>
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Tao
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">What is world history but a minute in eternity? The affirmative dresses themselves in the garb of sages and point to their achievements to raise themselves above nature without realizing that intellect is the ultimate form of deception.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">Kirkland 1 (Russell, prof of Asian religion @ UGA, “'Responsible Non-Action' in a Natural World: Perspectives from the Neiye, Zhuangzi, and Daode jing,” Daoism and Ecology,<!startwikilink:false|-|url|-|http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/ECO.pdf--><span class="wikiexternallink"><a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; " href="http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/ECO.pdf"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; color: windowtext; ">http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/ECO.pdf</span></a></span><!stopwikilink>)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">In the Taoist classic Huai-nan-tzu, one…<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; background- initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; "> simply accepting </span>the new state of things.’</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">The good traveler has no fixed plans. The joy of life comes spontaneously in accepting things as they are—the 1AC’s social engineering destroys us spiritually.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">Slabbert 1, (Jos, Taoist teacher, “Tao Te Ching: How to Deal With Suffering,” <!startwikilink:false|-|url|-|http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm--><span class="wikiexternallink"><a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; " href="http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; color: windowtext; ">http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm</span></a></span><!stopwikilink>, ev under erasure)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; background- initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; ">If you open yourself to loss</span>… it, the more damage we will do.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">Vote negative to forgo the 1AC’s intent to effect desired ends.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">Kirkland 96 (Russel, prof of Asian religions at UGA, “The Book of the Way,” Great Literature of the Eastern World, <!startwikilink:false|-|url|-|http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/DAODE.pdf--><span class="wikiexternallink"><a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; " href="http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/DAODE.pdf"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; color: windowtext; ">http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/DAODE.pdf</span></a></span><!stopwikilink>)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">Specifically, the Tao is humble…<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; background- initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; "> can thwart its unceasing operation</span>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">Political discourses are oversaturated with meanings and can’t have a particular trajectory in the present hyper-pluralist stasis<br class="lineBreak"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">Baudrillard 81 (Jean, The Tupac Shakur of Academia, Simulacra and Simulation, p. 16-17)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">Watergate was thus nothing… discourses without them wanting it to.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">Universities gladly permit such discourses by leftist academics, knowing that the proliferation of these discourses in the academy get co-opted by the sign economy and are graveyards for radical potential. <br class="lineBreak"><br class="lineBreak">Occupied UC Berkeley ‘9 (The Necrosocial: Civic Life, Social Death, and the UC; <!startwikilink:false|-|url|-|http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-necrosocial/--><span class="wikiexternallink"><a style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; " href="http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-necrosocial/"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; color: windowtext; ">http://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-necrosocial/</span></a></span><!stopwikilink>, 11/19)<br class="lineBreak"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">He and his look forward to a reproduction… revolution inside books, lecture halls.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">The 1AC participates in an anemic politics of modern death worship that renders death on an every-day level socially useless and demands technologically orchestrated spectacles of mass death to satisfy our collective desire for mourning. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> <br class="lineBreak">Baudrillard 93 (The Tupac Shakur of Academia, symbolic exchange and death. p 164-5, gendered language in erasure)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">Why is it that today there are no expected… always been something else altogether.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">Turn—the more we accede to ethical injunctions, the more it gains in severity—we create new ethical catastrophes to intervene in to maintain our satisfaction</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> <br class="lineBreak">Baudrillard 94 (Jean, The Tupac Shakur of Academia, “The Illusion of the End” p. 66-71)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: left; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); ">We have long denounced the capitalistic…<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; background- initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; "> to stage its own death as a species</span>.</p><div></div>
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