Panopticon...

Bonnie...

Holly, and Sarah...

This is your life, and its ending one minute at at a time.

 This should not be a post, it should be a book. It should not be a book, it should be several. This should not enlighten you, you already can feel it...this should be a warning. Repeated at nausea. But here are some cliff notes.

A Panopticon is a prison designed by an english philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Opticon=All. Pan=Prisioners. Bentham designed such a pantheon with the intent to control. Control over any and all prisoners with the least amount of required guards, resources, and action. Bentham himself called it a "new way of attaining power over the mind with no comparable example". Another architect compared it to God, and said "it has sentiments of invisible omniscience". Meaning its all knowing, all seeing, all the time. 

As you can see the Panopticon houses tons of prisoners, and few controllers. In fact the prisoners cannot see one another, nor can they see how many guards are on patrol, or if they are even patrolling at all. The prison works under the assumption that punishment is always looming, you are always being watched....we are Gods. 

While this may seem great as a prison, what if we were to illustrate its effects over our daily lives...What if we are all inside one giant Panopticon as we speak? Maybe those folks who shine lights on our invisible prison walls are those that are so called; "heretics" "crazies", "pyscho's", "religious nuts". Maybe that's why they disappear. Hell, Jesus was pretty damn radical in his day..and they crucified him for speaking up.

As I said, this is just a warning...look around. What do your prisons look like.

Here a Panopticon, there a Panopticon, everywhere Panopticon:

T.V.

Easy one right. Five minutes of watching and you know exactly what three diseases you have, what age you have to take what medications. Which new sugar you should crave, and which current health, or social tragedy to fear next. 

Televsion is one of the greatest forms of control we have ever seen. It essentially eliminates human interaction, therefore eliminating thought, debate, and any well meaning proactivity. We truly become docile, fat zombies waiting to be filled...never questioning if we should be getting filled in the first place.

Google:

To speak against the hallowed Google is heresy, but who do you think controls all the search engines, and where your browser is routed to. Do you really think its all honest "web browsing". Or do you think it's more likely you are directed where certain 'higher-ups' want you to go.

Books:

Sad. Very sad. I love to read personally, and I can't imagine getting enough. But I will not be so naive to think my selections are not in some way limited, or censored to the least provocative material. I simply pray I think enough for myself to fill in the blanks some folks are all to keenly leaving out.

Schools:

You learn...exactly what you were suppose to. Whatever the history books recorded. Whatever the guy in front of you says is gospel, as long as you spit it back correctly.

Are you really "educated" or are you "tamed". Animals have trial by fire. They learn by doing. By attacking life, and intelligently avoiding danger. Many of us surround ourselves with weak tribe members, and conform to their views so we fit in, never rocking the boat. I say, sink the &#&$#%er.

From camera's in grocery stores, to camera's in dressing rooms, to check after unexplainable check at the airport, we seem to be conditioned day by day, little by little, to fear the watcher. The watcher keeps us fat, fed, and weak in whatever Panopticon we choose, hell we don't have to do anything to get there, the walls are all around us, and most of us, are willing prisoners.

 Strength:

Rest

For Score:

One Full Tabata @ Each

-Broad Jump

-Overhead Squat 65/95

-Box Jump

-Med-Ball Sit-up Toss

Post score to comments. Post broad jumps in feet.

Comments

[k]

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[MJ]

Tabata 130
Broad jump 400ft

[stacy]

Cant say thank you enough to all that helped pull this event off, it was certainly a nice group effort! From promoting it, stuffing bags and volunteering, you all did great!!!

What a nice feeling to work hard for a great cause and all the same time, getting to share our gym witih so many in the area!

Very cool to see Troy Crossfit and Crossfit Crave join us!!!

Nice PRs on the WOD too!

Also really enjoyed watching all the young ones particpating, The Penner girls, Ellie, The peltier girls, that's powerful stuff, just knowing they have the strength to do the workout and make a stand against cancer!!

Again, thank you, thank you, thank you!

[Keisha]

Tabata-87
350 Broad Jump

[#10]

600 broad jump
163

[HeatherT]

tabata 138 (m)
150 lunges instead of broad jump

[Chuck T]

Tabata 132
Lunge 800 ft

[Gina E.]

Tabata@ 175
BJ 500 ft

[NP]

900ft/ 147

[betsy]

149 tabata. 600. Broadjump