Complete as many rounds as possible 20 minutes of:
10 Wallball shots, 20 pound ball
10 GHD Sit-ups
10 Back extensions

Run 5k

Panopticon

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. Courtesy of Practice CrossFit

Complete as many rounds as possible 20 minutes of:
95 pound Squat snatch, 10 reps
10 Ring dips
10 Knees to elbows

Ten for load and time of:
1 Clean and Jerk
5 Pull-ups
10 Push-ups
15 Squats

Matix doing burpees

21-15-9 reps of
225 pound Deadlift
135 pound Overhead Squat