No. 7 - Power Does Not Exist, Born From its Inverse and As Much A Simulated Commodity as it's Goals

Law and power are simulated things which react to anything thrown at them. In the case of laws against armed-robberies, the consciously simulated one (prank, whatever) must be reacted to in the same way as any real one because there is too much inability to tell if it is real and too much risk to say it isn't. Thus an armed-robbery can be committed without any arms to bear. 

Laws like this would be simulations regardless of postmodern evaluation, but their simulated-aspects warping and knotting with the real becomes more and more obvious as the 'modern era' continues to move forward. 

True power no longer exists, only built images of power that feed a demand for order, as well as born out of that demand. More or less born out of the bones of imperialism - seeking power through domination and resource mining - the modern forms of power are now subject to supply and demand, as well as the social demand of power through an obsession with it and its absence. Power is now the image of power, created out of its own inverse. 

If all that power and law would be concerning itself with is our lives and all that we enact within our societies is built upon simulations and symbols, of course the laws would occupy this same dimension, since they already by nature are simulated things (a law exists to simulate order, both of which don't really exist to begin with). 

I think I could fit this into my project somehow. I don't know how, but if I did now then I'd probably scrap it later, so I will say this is a good thing. 

I did however have a good idea or strong enough framework to build off of: converting images into dream-logic. Dreams are our brain's own inner simulations, built out of everything it absorbs from the external as well as internal and formed into a simulated reality that is literally stream-of-consciousness. As well as stream-of-consciousness, it is built from symbols of things we know of from the external, with faces and details blurred and wholly unreal, but within the dream-world you know exactly what they are without grasping any "true" details. The dream is built purely from symbols pulled from the external, now converted into a completely isolated simulation which you'll forget when you wake up. 

Interesting!

So I think this would be fun, make myself the image-to-dreamstate conversion machine rather than the artist. 

                                           Tubes inside my oscilloscope and the waveforms overtop