Once a neighbor complained that a Gilbreth had called the neighbor's boy a son of an unprintable word.“What are the facts of the matter?” Dad asked blandly. And then walked away while the neighbor registered a double take.

All of these practices by which the body is voluntarily tortured, disciplined, denie and de(p)leted are part of a larger tendency Paul Virilio calls endocolonization: It's no longer exo-colonization (the age of extending world conquest) but the age of intensiveness and endocolonization. One now colonizes only one's own population […] In the age of endocolonization, then, bodies are disappearng from themselves and (dis)integrating into technology.

WTF was that about?

These additional checks at airports are justified in the name of security.