Steering Activity
Operational Mechanisms
🦠 Necrocene
🔮 Sustainability Theorems
A cross-domain analysis of Political, Economic, Cultural, and Ecological theories.
Political Theory
Violence
Economic Theory
Poverty
Cultural Theory
Exclusion
Ecological Theory
Undeath
Direct Enforcement: Activities that actively reinforce hierarchical power.
📑 Observations
Establishing a triage containing observations of social experience.
🪞 Self-Enquiry
Is the systemic production of Poverty and Exclusion a policy failure, or is it a form of Steering Activity that maintains a social order by channeling energy into mere survival (Undeath) rather than liberation?
🩺 Diagnosis Questions
1. Is violence institutionalized (e.g., in policing, economics)?
2. Are there visible and invisible forms of coercion?
3. Does the system create "walking dead" (undeath) through deprivation?
Related Variables
- Violence-related mortality
- Poverty and unemployment rates
- Access to healthcare and education
"They force us to bomb these areas by operating from civilian locations."
🩻 Targeted Organ
The Feet
Capacity for Movement & Flight
🧾 Rationale
To channel all of Their energy into mere survival.
💉 Extraction/Cultivation
Systematic bombing of evacuation routes, shelters, hospitals, and aid distribution points.
😷 Defense/Propagation
Blaming the Victim: Framing the destruction of life-support systems as Hamas's human shields strategy.
❌ Tetrad Analysis
- Object of Perception: Social Energy
- ENHANCES: Social control; channeling energy into survival rather than liberation
- OBSOLESCES: Voluntary cooperation; intrinsic motivation; creative potential
- RETRIEVES: Overt authoritarian control masked as "law and order" or "crisis management"
- REVERSES INTO: Pervasive resistance and system-wide friction as coercion becomes primary social glue
📝 Partial Diagnosis
Directed Violence: System steers through overt and covert violence—poverty, exclusion, and structural deprivation—to maintain control.
⚗️ Research Repository
🔮 Engagement Circle
🧊 Life Course
🎓 Case Study
War on Drugs (1971-present)
The decades-long "War on Drugs" exemplifies steering activity through state violence, poverty maintenance, systematic exclusion from civic participation, and creating populations of the "living dead" through permanent criminal status.
Sources: Drug Policy Alliance | Sentencing Project Statistics | Bureau of Justice Statistics
📚 Literature
"The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander (2010)
Alexander's analysis of mass incarceration reveals how steering activity operates through systematic violence, engineered poverty, social exclusion, and the creation of "undeath" - a civil death that persists beyond prison.
