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What do you mean by that? They can't understand your speech? They can't follow your thought patterns? You suck at expressing your emotions? Come on, give us a glimpse into your dark and shattered minds... This isn't "ITT we tweet our current thought." Try to at least post something of substance or wit. (Ex: "At the store today, a coworker asked something to brought to him in the front over the intercom, and I accidentally replied, ``the kind that you push or hammer in?''" )

Power means control, and control's method is language. Conversation essentially reduces one to "broadcaster" and the other to "receiver:" a power binary which equates to "dominant" and "submissive." When we read, listen, or watch -- that is, enjoy the arts -- we are essentially allowing others limited control of our psychic body. We do not resist pleasurable submission of our most precious parts, or submission which we feel will benefit us. To watch, to listen, to read is to voluntarily lose control of our minds, and repeated or powerful experiences rewrite our psychic programming. Consciousness in itself is not slavery, but when we become aware of other humans, the power struggle begins. Only through social and sensory dissociation can a person be therapeutically restored to his own self.