When this summer's Olympics mascots were chosen in 2010 I posted.
This blog is partly about faces, and theirs were odd.
All I could do was joke, quoting Hugo on "the face of God". I was not political. This blog is not about politics.
But now I have to. Because they are bragging the single eyes will contain security cameras.
Maybe two years ago they were already planning this. Maybe not. It does not matter.
But I say, banal and strange is what is important, and so here I get serious.
IMO the deep subtext of the war on terror has always been an unconscious knowledge of the contingency of the breath. Which is terrifying to the ego.
And this contingency exists with a "third-eye" (if you have one). That's the key, the unconscious knows of the third-eye.
This means the mascots' eyes mean, sort of, we are watching you to make darn sure you do not breathe to produce enlightenment, which you do not want anyway.
At some point, I will blog why the unconscious places the third-eye figuratively cyclops-esque, right in the middle of the forehead.
upshot: I guess a corrupted image of a third-eye is better than none at all. Even/especially as a toy - masked to be safe as an essential attribute of the essential guarantor of safety, the policeman.
paraphrase/sarcasm: Do not worry, you do not have be conscious, you do not have be a Buddha, your lovely modern ego shall remain intact, and sort of because ... the policeman has a third-eye!
