{"id":3492,"date":"1994-12-01T18:46:04","date_gmt":"1994-12-01T18:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2023-04-19T20:12:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T20:12:14","slug":"boilerplate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/boilerplate\/","title":{"rendered":"1994: Boilerplate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Boilerplate: Koreshians, Potential Rioters, and Bureaucratic Complicity in American Self-destruction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Boilerplate<\/em>&nbsp;was first published as a stand-alone book designed and produced by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040216041808\/http:\/\/www.identifont.com\/show?1RW\">Stephen Farrell<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040216041808\/http:\/\/www.slipstudios.com\/\">Slip Studios<\/a>&nbsp;here in Chicago. It also appeared in&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040216041808\/http:\/\/www.juggernautco.com\/offline\/books\/mtae.html\">Memo To All Employees<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040216041808\/http:\/\/www.bookandpaper.org\/exhibitions2001\/manuscriptilluminated.html#farrell\">Stephen<\/a>&nbsp;produced three printings of&nbsp;<em>Boilerplate<\/em>&nbsp;in stand-alone form. The first was December 1994 and the second was January 1995. Both of these printings were very small quanitities, in the range of a couple dozen. The books are completely hand-made. The covers are cut from gun range targets. The inside spreads are hand cut from paper run through a commercial grade office printer. Many of Stephen&#8217;s students from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040216041808\/http:\/\/www.ilia.aii.edu\/\">Illinois Institute of Art<\/a>&nbsp;helped in production of the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The third printing of&nbsp;<em>Boilerplate<\/em>&nbsp;was May 1, 1995, the same day&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040216041808\/http:\/\/www.juggernautco.com\/offline\/books\/mtae.html\">Memo To All Employees<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;was published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book has a cover price of $6 and it has never been professionally distributed; only sold by hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Boilerplate\/NECvtgAACAAJ?hl=en\">See on Google Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Covers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div 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data-link=\"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/boilerplate-02\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Boilerplate-02.gif\" data-width=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Boilerplate-02.gif?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Audio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boilerplate: Koreshians, Potential Rioters, and Bureaucratic Complicity in American Self-Destruction by Daniel X. O&#039;Neil\" width=\"500\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F630908229&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Complete text<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EPIGRAPHS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do I contradict myself?<br>Very well then I contradict myself<br>(I am large, I contain multitudes.)<br><em><br>Walt Whitman, Song of Myself<\/em><br><br>First, we&#8217;re going to cut it off,<br>and then we&#8217;re going to kill it.<br><em><br>Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell speaking of the Iraqi Army in Kuwait, January 23, 1991<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DEDICATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">for Deng Xiaoping.<br>Ni-Hao!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FOREWARD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that the Branch Davidian Compound has burned to the ground,<br>now that they are all dead and gone and the<br>dominant culture puts its stern face back on,<br>furnished with police forces and satellite cities and hard\/soft book deals<br>they draw back from the whimsy and jokes.<br>The news grubs at the ashes and tsks its head from side to side.<br>Now those on the outside of this psychodrama<br>from central casting can look on in earnest,<br>and fortify ourselves with a lesson like gasoline siphoned from a gastank.<br>Eight ways we are a lot like them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1 CONTAINED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First we remove the foliage from around the camp.<br>Separate outside from inside and only agents and<br>turncoats travel twixt. Then the incessant blasting of Nancy<br>Sinatra and rabbit squeals and Tibetan monk chants and the<br>speakers are all turned inward.<br>First we build a tall project wedged between a river and a bypass highway.<br>First we lay cable into each home and inflict us with a nation&#8217;s balm.<br>Like single servings we stare at the glow and wonder where everyone else is.<br>Stuffed into compartments of agnates; race is the great one foisted but<br>class comes first of all. Again and again we&#8217;re dipped into hot wax like<br>wicks in a factory and the wax says, &#8220;enter into mankind as a prisoner only.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2 ARMED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They were itching for a fight&#8221; the papers say now like they were<br>monkeys near food time. From prison shiv to the pink pistol of a lady,<br>there&#8217;s a lot of good reasons to be<br>belligerent once you got a club in your hand.<br>The startling rat a tat metal of the Koreshians used to pick off<br>government employees were manufactured here in proud America and<br>sold in sanctioned swap meets.<br>Rain falls from the sky; guns are shipped in cartons.<br>Just like the rest of us\u2014 ghetto-dwellers,<br>doomsday prophets, Texans, duck-hunters, candidates,<br>wife-beaters, mailmen, off-duty cops, kids:<br>we all hug the weapons and keep them close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3 DERANGED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scrang the sirens go. We&#8217;re led from one crisis to the<br>next, whether it&#8217;s a hurricane or a foreign intervention or the dead at<br>Brown&#8217;s Chicken (you can kill 7<br>people before midnight and get away with it) in<br>Palatine, Illinois. Cop shows beat us in front of ourselves.<br>There is no time for reflection, only a stilted<br>genuflection at each virtual funeral.<br>Quiet contemplation is discouraged\u2014 even drycleaning chemicals make us sick.<br>Glazed with the patina and muck of a whole culture built on destroying yesterday.<br>Collective memory is hosed out and<br>patted into caloric units of the whitewashed milquetoast truth.<br>Look at Ollie North\u2014 he whacked us over the head and we let him run for Senator.<br>That&#8217;s deranged. Oh, the rabbit squeals in each ear,<br>the rabbit squeals indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4 MARGINALIZED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As one blunt apparatus the economy works like a snowplow. In the innocent neighbor faces of all employees the economy&#8211; which like God is everywhere and sacred&#8211; works as a broad mechanism of the center and what is the center without the pale to step beyond? Marginalization is an act of the center and driven by snarling quest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Koreshians raid must have been someone&#8217;s Focus Group&#8211; there were 9 o&#8217;clock meetings. Team Leaders with coffee in styrofoam cups spoke in nifty &#8220;game plans&#8221; and &#8220;situations&#8221; and &#8220;chalk talk&#8221;. This is the stuff of budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is what people call turf and the Thanksgiving turkey is born in all this. Who here does not bite this boob sometime? And who will denounce someone for feeding their children and clothing themselves against wind and snow and nudging for a spot at the trough? This is our quandary: Collectively all we do is carry out the directives of clenched teeth whether as a quality control clerk at a metal fastener subcontractor for warplanes or as the administrative assistant to the honcho in charge of canning the workers or as a hitman of the workaday murder industry there are only so many ways to come up with a mortgage. This is not some whispered conspiracy; this is the broad daylight complicity in our own self-destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do we expect of those on the fringes, in the crusty dirty snow piled up at the edges of expressways? What about the ones after the last nipple in line?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can expect Koreshians and Potential Rioters and hardly more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5 ORGANIZED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Often the marginalized shake hands with their own black and blueness.<br>Otherness is stroked for a while, made to swell until<br>virtue is made from deficiency.<br>A mild or strong group is formed in the cornfield or concrete block<br>apartment or downtown office building or 90 miles south of Fort Worth.<br>The rest of us plunk down into subgroups of 15 or so too,<br>often stockpiling enough similarities in each other whether it&#8217;s the<br>enjoyment of pro football or the repressed damage of mean parents or<br>training in the same profession or the loss of a child due to drunk drivers<br>or the mistaken belief that some freakezoid is the same Jesus Christ who used to<br>walk Earth. This way we raze a nation of citizens and<br>come up with a millioned<br>honeycombed units fractured, floating.<br>Lobbyists are good at this. Urban streetgang leaders are good at this.<br>David Koresh was good at this. Presidential candidates had better be good at<br>this or won&#8217;t win. Once there is a cohesive group<br>and the thwack of bureaucratic pressure<br>is placed at a right angle to it<br>things can go south, and do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6 NEGOTIATED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the Koreshians killed four agents the tone changed.<br>&#8220;Hey hey hey slow dooowwwn there folks&#8221;<br>(it always comes down to &#8220;folks&#8221; like a balded man with his palms out and<br>arms bent to a surging crowd, always &#8220;folks&#8221; at this moment).<br>One day the phone call comes.<br>The negotiator will say something soothing like<br>&#8220;your mom&#8217;s out here&#8221; or &#8220;your lawyer is on the way in with a TV contract&#8221; or<br>the drug dealer who says to the cop &#8220;OK, you want in on this?&#8221;<br>Once you got a sliver of power that&#8217;s when the phone rings.<br>Except the Koreshians were up for 50 days listening to rabbits and they were<br>not exactly sane to begin with this is not exactly<br>&#8220;Dog Day Afternoon&#8221; or even cute.<br>(The chafing, the chafing)<br>The DEA didn&#8217;t bother to act in good faith<br>because negotiation and attack are interchangeable.<br>By now the Koreshians or poor Noriega &#8220;a corrupt debauch thug&#8221;<br>are all dressed up for a pounding, dehumanized.<br>Look at Haiti&#8217;s Cedras\u2014 one day he was a jerk\/<br>murderer the next his little kid is bouncing on Jimmy Carter&#8217;s<br>knee. The boilerplate is rigid but teeters sometimes:<br>the bureaucracy makes the rest of us only<br>the subject of satiate, disdain, disinformation,<br>cash payments, and alternative whacks on the braincase.<br>Which one depends more on whim and the biorythms of<br>middle managers than anything else.<br>After a while we were able to say finally like a broken parrot<br>&#8220;Get rid of them they&#8217;re costing us money they&#8217;re a<br>big bore and crazy anyway except for the kids\u2014<br>go in and save the kids.&#8221;<br>There is one messy doctrine and like the Koreshians we are surrounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7 ATTACKED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So now they enter with the battering rams executing the aforesaid game plans.<br>Or maybe the attack is wholly unconscious and unintended<br>(The dead of Pan Am 103 included Syracuse students but also some<br>spies going home on holiday.)<br>The consequences of complicity come in many ways and we cannot divorce our-<br>selves from any of them.<br>Military aircraft falls from the sky that hurts too.<br>Heavy metals and strontium in the water table are not passive.<br>The fire it did burn at noon and either it was set from inside<br>or something else but even collateral damage is<br>part of the deal, all wrapped up.<br>Every shooting among the rest of us is a self-inflicted wound.<br>Eventually the rest of us draw the blustery attention of the bureaucracy and<br>it comes in the form of your mother&#8217;s face.<br>The police are in the service of property and fraudulent<br>affidavits clang the prison doors shut how many people can we<br>put there how many food services contracts can be awarded doesn&#8217;t this hurt?<br>We have more in common with the beaten than the beaters.<br>Maybe someday soon we&#8217;ll find a way to kill the kids too without blinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8 IMMOLATED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now all the policies have been enacted,<br>and the water is washed over all of the<br>\u2018flames, and it comes down to &#8220;look what they did.&#8221;<br>The mantra says how they were nuts and we try to place a<br>respectable wall between us and them<br>&#8220;look what they did.&#8221; The looters and burners and petty<br>crooks walking out of furniture stores with cheap beanbag chairs in the<br>Rodney King riots they were deplored too.<br>They were compared to dogs pissing on themselves but each day is not brand-new.<br>Each day the coppery scent of blood spilled the day before is still in the air.<br>The containment and armament of entire populations are not erased at daybreak.<br>The derangement and marginalization and loud booms<br>of the past still ring and make headaches today.<br>The organizations and negotiations and suicide pacts of<br>sickos are not null and void with one sun cycle.<br>Attacks at dawn don&#8217;t disappear, the soil stains around<br>the perimeter of a fiery immolation don&#8217;t go away ever.<br>There is no such thing as an isolated event.<br>As a nation we are one thin ribbon of people and the living can learn from the dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boilerplate: Koreshians, Potential Rioters, and Bureaucratic Complicity in American Self-destruction was first published in December 1994. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-essays"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/boilerplate_cover_farrell.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3848,"href":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions\/3848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juggernautco.com\/dxo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}