My sickness is my power. This notebook is written from the perspective of a two-hundred-year-old human being, who grew up in the mid-nineteenth century and mistakenly relied on contemporary thinkers such as Darwin s cousin Francis Galton (1822 1911) and Herbert Spencer (1820 1903). Now, in the twenty-first century, he corrects his misapprehensions and describes his thinking as a form of reasoning grounded in skepticism rather than in certitude. Through this medium, Critical Art Ensemble announces an earnest warning: the currently circulating rhetoric shows patterns of argumentation that are problematic in similar ways to discredited evolutionary theories. The current problem is double-ended: on the one hand, sickness is associated with individuals or a susceptible population group; on the other hand, the backbiting politics of prophylaxis obscure the real causes. Critical Art Ensemble (CCA) was founded in 1987 by five media practitioners. sakriti opis