Chapter 71 exception status

There was a scene in "Francis" starring Jessica Lange that really struck me. The film is based on the life of actress Frances Farmer in the 1940s.The protagonist, Francis Farmer, became famous for his writing when he was a teenager. He entered Hollywood in the 1930s and successfully became a star.But she has a violent personality, and she has repeatedly clashed with others, and gradually goes to extremes.She would go berserk on set, antagonize the production company, and be sent to a mental hospital by her mother.The most shocking passage is here. In the mental hospital, she had her white matter removed and became the object of lust for the nurses.The caretakers charged the punks and soldiers and let them in at night, lining up to abuse Francis Farmer.She spent eleven years in a mental hospital.

In "Kill Bill", there is a similar plot; and in "Change of Suspects", mental patients are still objects that can do whatever they want.Those who are disobedient will be sent to "Room 18" - that is an electric shock room. Ordinary people also acquiesce in the existence of this situation.My classmate's mother is a somewhat capable woman. In order to thank her nanny for serving her old father who was paralyzed on the bed for a long time, after the old father passed away, she managed to bring this girl who had not yet graduated from elementary school from the countryside. The child was sent to become a nurse, but ordinary hospitals obviously cannot get in, what should I do?You can go to a mental hospital. "Anyway, mental patients don't know the pain, and they are not afraid of getting the wrong needle, and no one will believe what they say," she said confidently.

The above-mentioned situation is not allowed under normal conditions. Even the most hypocritical laws will prosecute the horrific gang rapes. Even the most tyrannical hospitals will complain about nurses' negligence of duty.But there it is, it's a vacuum.All rules are enforced elsewhere, but there is an exception. Why? In his article, Mr. Liang Wendao quoted the views in the book "State of Exception" written by the Italian thinker Giorgio Agamben: "The so-called 'state of exception' refers to the threat to national security and public order. A state in which normal law and the rights it guarantees are temporarily suspended." This should have been an extraordinary state, but "Agamben boldly declared that in modern society the state of exception is not an extraordinary state but It is a political norm." The article also cited several examples of taking the "state of exception" to the extreme, such as Hitler's use of Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution ("If the security and public order of Germany are seriously Interference and threats, the President of the Reich may take the necessary means to re-establish security and order, by force if necessary. To this end he may suspend, in whole or in part, the Fundamental Powers Established in Article 2”), the US internment camps at Guantanamo Bay, etc.

Wars, critical situations, and social turmoil are "exceptional states" that occur in countries; diseases, especially mental illness, are small-scale "exceptional states" that occur in individuals.When a person is judged to be harmful or potentially harmful to those around him, it is tantamount to entering this "state of exception", and outsiders can do whatever they want to him. Like Francis Farmer's eleven years in a mental hospital, where order was out of order and law was all void.What she encountered was a certain iron law: first deprive you of your attributes as a normal person, and then you can deprive you of your attributes as a human being.