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War is peace
Peace is War

Standing Order of Battle
Good Works in God's Army

 

V.F.W. - V.D.W
no guts, no glory

Standing Order of Battle
presented by Scari.Org
Standing
Order of Battle:
an attempt to understand our mythic tribal legacy. Our very successes are wrapped in the fabric of our existence. Standing Order of Battle places us where we are today understanding but not responding to our lust for conflict.

SOB
Peace is War - War is peace
Inorder to have peace here there must be war elsewhere.
To have war somewhere else supports our peace and full employment here.

Text for the innitial exhibition in Sept. 1990.

Standing Order of Battle
soldierly waiting S.O.B.

Description:
S. O. B. a state of male—hood. A qued group of heads, hearts, hands, and pricks, mired on pikes.

The impalement:
the involuntary patriarchy produced by the coupling of the rectangle, rooted territory, captured amimals the planted seed, retired the predator form battle with the elements to involuntary involvement then preoccupation with human conflict.
Now organized and perceived profitable with the tally of winners and losers, war has evolved in self-organized progression from responsibility for tribe protection to care and feeding of the corporate/nation.
Pathological couplings form survival strategys that satisfy the struggle ennui: a genetic need for competition and domination of something, anything, everything.
Standing Order of Battle is a rooted part of anthrogenesis (genetic white noise) being our default motivator; S.O.B is visceral — beyond explanation — It just is.

Cast: Standing Army / Soldierly Waiting
Officers:
General Bliss,
Chaplin Balling,
Col. Sing
Maj. Major,
Capt. Crunch,
Lt. Sophis

Enlisted:
Sgt. Major Minor,
Sgt. Slaughter,
Corpral Helmes,
Pvt. Rogers,
Pvt. Night,
Pvt. Freeman,
Pvt. Stubblefield,

Produced by: Scari.Org 1990
exhibitions: Michael Randles
Curated by: Gus O. Kahan

 

pricks on sticks

Genetic Needs: Sexual Access, Social Intercourse.

Order of Battle ___ God's Army
territorial imperative

Involuntary Patriarchy
part of a larger picture in the depiction of male sexuality. The dilemma between modern constraints and our humble origin; the territorial imperative began by Neolithic - Agrarian needs coupled with the hunter creating the soldier-spoiler-patriarch.

The pack animal becomes complex, using a myriad of strategies for the primal function; a reason to exist.

Now, a pragmatic enterprise, war (battle) is codified in doctrine. The tenants are felt but not known -- it's in the genes. His only weapon is his brain, a brain suffused in chemistry that operates not always according to rules, any rules.

The Subterfuge

The Standing Order of Battle was an anticipated response to Gulf War I but seems not to have not missed the mark for Gulf War II. The extent of subterfuge in order to commit to this, the latest adventure, leaves no doubt as to the level of play, the obfuscation, deceit required to raise the war ax in order to exact revenge. Revenge, a moral notion to rationalize the irrational, to make moral the immoral, to transmogrify the immoral into the amoral for pragmatic reasons. Pragmatic War. "We will do it because we can."

As an Elk has horns to secure his rut, a rut created by the scent of the female in estrus, drives him wild — as man makes war to secure his access, status and linage at the beckon of the female,
A conspiracy of the sexes, now threatens the ground on which this ancient conflict began.
This drama anticipates Shakespeare by dozens of millennia — an embarrassing condition given the faculties and mechanisms, systems, devised to counter the righteousness of hubris from overwhelming a higher calling for humanity.

However, to be fit for breeding is not necessarily what this planet needs today. With 7 billion scratching Homo Sapiens clawing for access to the fruits available makes for a lusty artificial demand for confrontation, conflict, competition.

Now raw power is the scent that drives us to the next level.

 

Veteran Memorial
Veteran Memorial S.O.B.

S.O.B. Standing Order of Battle is a product of the goddess.

War is Peace is War is Peace is War
Standing Order
An order or rule held to be in force until specifically changed or withdrawn, especially a regulation relating to military or parliamentary procedure.

Battle
Usage: {Battle}, {Combat}, {Fight}, {Engagement}. These words
agree in denoting a close encounter between contending
parties. Fight is a word of less dignity than the
others. Except in poetry, it is more naturally applied
to the encounter of a few individuals, and more
commonly an accidental one; as, a street fight. A
combat is a close encounter, whether between few or
many, and is usually premeditated. A battle is
commonly more general and prolonged. An engagement
supposes large numbers on each side, engaged or
intermingled in the conflict.

Subterfuge
As an elk has horns, a technology to secure his rut, man makes war to secure his access to status, reproduction –– being –– the female drives the episode by demanding the superior combatant for the superiority of the species .

Taps:

A bugler's prayer is meek fare for a life.


execution
SOB
excruciation
exhumation
exhumation