Poison Gold Leaf Research Paper
Poison Gold Leaf: How Cameras Corrode Our Nation
“To know that you do not know is the best.
To think you know when you do not is a disease.
Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.”
― Laozi Long Island City, Queens. At around 5 pm. on Thursday, September 6, 2012, a 28 year-old father named Oscar Arzeno can be seen furiously kicking an ATM machine, too drunk to correctly withdraw his money. Soon he is arguing with the gas clerk, 27 year-old Jesse Singh, a former amateur kickboxer from Mumbai. At first they appear to be having a heated discussion. The first sign of physical violence occurs when Oscar attempts to slap away Jesse’s hand, while Jesse is making a nonviolent hand gesture. After more verbal arguing, the drunk Oscar instigates by taking the first swing. From here, all hell breaks loose: …show more content…
Today, they have become a prevalent security measure in many non-military American facilities (“History of CCTV”). CCTVs can now be found in most gasoline stations and convenience stores, aiming to prevent lawbreaking behavior and assure lawabiding dilligence. Its effects are comparable to those of the Panopticon, a prison designed by Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. In the Panopticon, inmates are stationed in a circular perimeter, and a manager or staff of the institution is able to watch them from an “inspection tower,” placed in the middle of the prison. In his 1975 book, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, French social theorist Michel Foucault points out how Bentham’s design was meant “to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power” (201). Similar to the Panopticon’s central inspection tower, CCTVs act as an ever functioning lense of authority—an authority that is exercised “spontaneously and without noise”
“To know that you do not know is the best.
To think you know when you do not is a disease.
Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.”
― Laozi Long Island City, Queens. At around 5 pm. on Thursday, September 6, 2012, a 28 year-old father named Oscar Arzeno can be seen furiously kicking an ATM machine, too drunk to correctly withdraw his money. Soon he is arguing with the gas clerk, 27 year-old Jesse Singh, a former amateur kickboxer from Mumbai. At first they appear to be having a heated discussion. The first sign of physical violence occurs when Oscar attempts to slap away Jesse’s hand, while Jesse is making a nonviolent hand gesture. After more verbal arguing, the drunk Oscar instigates by taking the first swing. From here, all hell breaks loose: …show more content…
Today, they have become a prevalent security measure in many non-military American facilities (“History of CCTV”). CCTVs can now be found in most gasoline stations and convenience stores, aiming to prevent lawbreaking behavior and assure lawabiding dilligence. Its effects are comparable to those of the Panopticon, a prison designed by Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. In the Panopticon, inmates are stationed in a circular perimeter, and a manager or staff of the institution is able to watch them from an “inspection tower,” placed in the middle of the prison. In his 1975 book, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, French social theorist Michel Foucault points out how Bentham’s design was meant “to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power” (201). Similar to the Panopticon’s central inspection tower, CCTVs act as an ever functioning lense of authority—an authority that is exercised “spontaneously and without noise”