http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Baudrillard/Baudrillard_Simulacra.html http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~amtower/uncanny.html

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php

My first contention, and the reasoning behind this entire theoretical project, is that the country is currently involved in perpetuating a self-replicating environment that is negatively influencing the quality of life for a majority of citizens. This environment in the strictest physical sense is that of the prison, but, more importantly, on a higher level the entire judicial system is to blame. By imprisoning citizens and increasingly stepping up the number of possible offenses leading to incarceration, the entire system perpetuates itself to the ultimate aim of institutional control over every person. Additionally, recent judicial overstepping and governmental paranoia has given every American the sense that they could at any time be imprisoned without probable cause or due process, and held indefinitely. All the while, the rhetoric of preserving individual freedom has pervaded the speech and actions of those in charge, which the public accepts only because we are losing the very ability to express what freedom really is. Therefore we are becoming more and more docile to the freedoms being lost every day. The very idea of power at the judicial level needs to be re-thought to curb the promise of a dystopia that is our future.

	Next, in order to achieve the aim of a reformed and self-replicating environment (in the sense of being a 

social system that perpetuates itself and its constituent parts), I recommend that the entirety of the justice system be radically reformed, and most likely abolished completely, with, at the very least, the emptying of all federal, state, local, military, and private prisons. Because of the likely turmoil this action will face at the short term, steps should be made to mitigate any unfortunate actions (to be determined).

	More key steps, to be ironed out later, would involve the internment of government officials. Symbolically 

placed in overpriced, overstylized buildings designed by famous architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libenskind, et al. Here our former leaders would remain indefinitely, with no contact with the outside world, and left with only volumes of analytic philosophy to read.

	All of the proposed changes would be documented in an HBO original television series. A staff of recent 

graduate student writers would be employed to enhance the ‘reality’ of the drama as needed.

My first contention, and the reasoning behind this entire theoretical project, is that the country is currently involved in perpetuating a self-replicating environment that is negatively influencing the quality of life for a majority of citizens. This environment in the strictest physical sense is that of the prison, but, more importantly, on a higher level the entire judicial system is to blame. By imprisoning citizens and increasingly stepping up the number of possible offenses leading to incarceration, the entire system perpetuates itself to the ultimate aim of institutional control over every person. Additionally, recent judicial overstepping and governmental paranoia has given every American the sense that they could at any time be imprisoned without probable cause or due process, and held indefinitely. All the while, the rhetoric of preserving individual freedom has pervaded the speech and actions of those in charge, which the public accepts only because we are losing the very ability to express what freedom really is. Therefore we are becoming more and more docile to the freedoms being lost every day. The very idea of power at the judicial level needs to be re-thought to curb the promise of a dystopia that is our future.

	Next, in order to achieve the aim of a reformed and self-replicating environment (in the sense of being a social system that perpetuates itself and its constituent parts), I recommend that the entirety of the justice system be radically reformed, and most likely abolished completely, with, at the very least, the emptying of all federal, state, local, military, and private prisons. Because of the likely turmoil this action will face at the short term, steps should be made to mitigate any unfortunate actions (to be determined).
	More key steps, to be ironed out later, would involve the internment of government officials. Symbolically placed in overpriced, overstylized buildings designed by famous architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libenskind, et al. Here our former leaders would remain indefinitely, with no contact with the outside world, and left with only volumes of analytic philosophy to read.
	All of the proposed changes would be documented in an HBO original television series. A staff of recent graduate student writers would be employed to enhance the ‘reality’ of the drama as needed.