0:01 Why camouflage is like a rhizome.
- The complexity of camouflage and abstraction.
- Why camouflage is a better survival strategy.
2:44 The servant as master.
- How to become low like water and remain powerful.
- Master as servant - martyr.
5:16 The boss who tries to also be your best friend.
- The parent who guilts you.
- Undermined core self: camouflage needed for shame concealment.
6:56 The ubiquity of repetition and mass media.
- The ubiquity of marilyn monroe as a sex symbol. (Andy Warhol)
- Society normalization disperses desire: at once object and landscape.
9:18 Desire has become decentralized and dispersed
- Mimetic desire has become decentralized and mimetically dispersed.
- The role of libido in camouflaging.
12:13 The decentralization of the self.
- Camouflage through subject, context, confusion or dispersal at scale.
- Decentralization of self: the self or desire as a rhizome.
14:45 Disguise is the facade that shelters the self, but also enables psychopathic killers.
- The digital world lacks trust, artificial intelligence, and the travails of insecurity.
- Crowdsourcing wikipedia is a battleground.
16:57 We no longer trust the image.
- The attention economy and the loss of trust.
- The destabilization of America,
19:28 Do you still have the power to focus or just act?
- Focus is the only thing that can determine who we are.
- Hunker down and live dangerously.
