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 malehood. 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
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Genetic Needs: Sexual Access, Social Intercourse.

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.
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Veteran Memorial S.O.B.
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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 .
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