[FRIAM] tolerance of intolerance

[Jon Zingale]

FWIW, I think Eric is correct to highlight the relationship between being
*increasingly promulgated to the semi-divine stature* and the disappearance
of *demos*. However, I am resistant to a characterization that renders
demos as *abstract* rather than *virtual*. I am resistant to the idea that
demoi are implemented rather than immanent. While there may come a day
where master-slave relations become complete and fully actualized and demos
(relegated to the abstract) is solely manifested via deputization, I
maintain a level of wishful-hoping that for as long as we engage one
another, demos de facto exists and immanently so.

This subtlety, for me, parallels on the one hand, the ontological status of
infinitesimals in founding the differential calculus, and on the other,
discussions I am having with Nick around the nature of *facts*. To my mind,
disinformation isn't simply the overturning of truth values intension with
a concept. Rather, disinformation campaigns (like other forms of fascism)
aim to atomize networks of relations. Atomization can happen at various
levels, sometimes at the level of the ideas and at other times at the level
of repositories. Demos, like concept, is inherently non-discrete even if
only nilpotent. In the end, I suppose both that the denial of demos is
expensive and that collective perceptions can stay irrational longer than I
can stay solvent.
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