<nettime> The London Billboard

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Karl Marx grave has been vandalized ... 
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dzhn7-7WwAIl8jE.jpg

What does this mean?

If one makes the obvious assumption about who did it, it means that Marx 
is increasingly relevant in realpolitik.

The less obvious assumption is a false flag op, to bring Marx back to 
the scene.

The point being, the act itself has no inherent meaning. It's just a 
canvas. Like so many other acts, it's a propping up of a billboard to 
project onto. Once the audience is trained to this, it becomes easy to 
mask real acts. The result is that meaning as consensus is gone.

Masses behave like superheated liquid way past it's boiling point, 
waiting for something, anything, to explosively boil. The art of 
maintenance seems to consist of ensuring that every nucleation appears 
suspicious and unreal. Statistics and quantum noise work against the 
maintainers, though.

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