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century) forward (p. 8), it is the world of institutions, science, democracy, technologies, humanism, the world in which the foundations are shaped by systems: society in the social system, science in the scientific system, philosophy in the philosophical system. That world, the world of technology, is the world of evil, of hatred, of mutilated and limited people, the world of lies and deception, therefore a false world, a world opposite to the real world. It is related to the real world like a mirror:

Mirror — social-political system

MIRROR

(second key concept). Toward real life, the Mirror only reflects the truth, the mirror is an illusion, a reflection, a shadow of reality. The historical existence of technology is the Institution, “a Tower of Babylon whose walls are made of Mirrors. Within those walls, pleasantly delimited and protected, the Technologists walk about” (p.10). Thus, just as technology is a codeword for society, so mirror is a codeword for institutions, for the system, or for any other organization… Within the mirrors are all those who serve the institution or the system: the Technologists. The Technologists are hierarchical monkeys” (p. 24) — the codeword for social-political workers, “officials, philosophers, scholars, artists” (p. 17, 24, 25). A synonym for Technologists is:

BOY

(the third key category).

Boys (technologists) — officials, scholars, philosophers, artists

Why are the Technologists called Boys? Simply because they are not mature, because they are too infantile to be called people. The Technologists as Boys are eternally incapacitated human individuals, and are therefore

a lower race of people

. “Technology has been noted as the production of Boys” (p. 6) because it is precisely there that a differentiation is made between

two clearly separate kinds of people

: between the Boys and the Persons.

Person

–

a member of the group of bicyclists associated with the journal

Vidici

.

PERSON

is the first positive concept (it is quite clear that the authors of these texts consider themselves to be Persons). Persons are all those people who are outside the institutions of the system, who have “seen through” Technology (society) and who are on the other side of the Mirror (system). “Within the Institution there are no Persons, just Technologists or Boys” (p. 5) simply because “Boys respect the rules of the game imposed by the Institution” (p. 8), but “A Person does not respect the rules of the game.” The basic rules of the game are

the law and morals

. “The Law is a limitation of the Person. Life in accordance with the law affirms Technology but it destroys the Will. The Will, the Person, does not have laws in life” (p. 8). THE PERSON IS ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING, because it can:

“It is strong enough to do anything it wants without regard for the law or for form”

(p. 22).

The Person

, likewise,

does not respect morals

because “morals are necessary just to keep Technologists from running into each other, but the Person does not need them.” Persons and Boys are two clearly separate races of people.

The Will to break the Mirror —

the desire to destroy the social system

The difference between Persons and Boys leads us to the second positive concept, to the

Will

Only a Person can possess a Will, while Boys have self-will. Will is formed at precisely that moment when a man becomes aware of Technology (society), when he becomes aware that it is actually the system that is limiting him. He then obtains the

WILL TO BREAK THE MIRROR

(the system).

Perspectives

are actually defined that way (p. 4): “Perspectives are the Will to break the Mirror,” to tear down the system, all the institutions and everything that makes up Technology (society) and thus “bring it to an end.”

Just as the Barbarians destroyed everything they came across, so the Persons destroy everything that exists .

1) The Person abolishes society . “Society is a medium (an intermediary), mediating between the Boys in an idol, because Boys can only come into existence in Society” (p. 6). A Person does not belong to society in any way, he is outside of it because he is only interested in society insofar as its destruction is in question: “The problems of Society are not at all the problems of the Person. REALITY CAN ONLY BE ATTAINED IF SOCIETY IS ABOLISHED,” which is the basic meaning of breaking the Mirror.

2) The Person abolishes humaneness . A Person is not humane, because humaneness is a product of Technology. “Boys are humane” (p. 6), say the authors of these texts and, therefore, they are not offering any kind of compliment because humaneness is a pejorative term for them. “Anthropology is the name of the western evil called humanism . Humanism, self-will, selfishness and evil are synonyms” (p. 26).

3) Persons kill Boys . Since “Boys are the idols of life, they should be broken” (p. 6). Killing Boys (technologists, officials, scientists, artists) is not evil in any way, because Boys are not people: “those people are not alive because they sold their soul to the Grand Inquisitor. The Technologist needs the Barbarian who will kill him and in doing so give him life ” (p. 24).

4) The Person abolishes democracy . Democracy is, likewise, a product of the Devil, an invention of the Boys that is used to maintain the system (institutions) and limiting the Person. Democracy is nothing more than “a collection of individual self-wills (self-wills because, clearly, Boys do not have a Will) that render an opposite will” (therefore a false will). “That is a Technology that only the Person can abolish .”

5) The Person abolishes all science , all sources of enlightenment. Synonyms for science, or reason, are: the Devil (7), the scarecrow (7), the Inquisition (9), the Beast (8), Frankenstein (8), and hatred (11). Boys are enlightened (smart — p. 6) while “the Person is uneducated” (p. 17). Every system (a synonym for hatred — p. 22), and so also the scientific one, comes from the Devil (Technology): philosophy, science and art. “They are necessary only to the Technologists and their opposite world” (p. 25). The greatest scientists are, at the same time, also the greatest Technologists (the complete realization of technology is given in the identity of the mind, history and work — Marx, Hegel — p. 24).

6) The Person abolishes all systems (every institution). As long as institutions exist, we cannot exist but we can only be reflected opposite to the institutions of living: opposite to Technology. “ Only when I break the Mirror do I stop being a Technologist and become a Person ” (p. 23, 25).

7) The Person abolishes the truth and beauty . Beauty and the truth are forms produced in the false world — of Technology (p. 24). “The Truth” is an idol of oppositeness. When the Mirror is broken, no kind of truth is necessary for life because truth is the lie of life ” (p. 10).

THE APOCALYPSE — THE MOMENT THE MIRROR IS SHATTERED

The Apocalypse is the crucial moment in the completion of the “project” of the editorial board of Vidici . In their Amon Düül-like dream of melancholy, the perspectives of Vidici are dedicated to the moment when the society of Technologists and Boys will grow into a community of Persons. Just as the Dictionary of Technology as a manifestation takes the form of a Gospel, thus the Apocalypse is graphically presented in the journal as Dürer’s “Four Riders of the Apocalypse.”