Bad Dialogue

Surveying the early stirrings of political and religious violence cycles, one begins to see a faint pattern, which isn't all that different from patterns of neural learning, or "un-learning" in this case - destruction actually begins to resemble a deliberate construction in reverse. What seems like random, isolated acts of violence - which don't necessarily have to be random, but which can occur along certain subterranean political or cultural fault lines - becomes patterned in its repetition, which opens up a sort of corridor, or highway in which a reliable exchange of dialogue occurs. The traffic carves out a pathway, that grows all the more deeper as the traffic self-regulates and becomes visible.

So what was once a constant but invisible (invisible to mainstream perception anyways) pitter-patter of police violence against minorities, or military and collateral violence in the Middle East, becomes a pathway as the violence takes on greater symbolic meaning, in which both sides exchange a dialogue of violence, a dialogue which contains in its logic mechanisms of positive feedback, so that the pathways must deepen and amplify until there is a resolution. What that resolution will look like is another story.