Violence that is baked into the [[form]] of the system as such. This is not the "syste-***matic***" use of violence (although often systemic violence is certainly systematic); rather, it is violence that is part and parcel of the system. ### A couple jokes [[Bertolt Brecht]]'s joke [[Brecht's founding of a bank joke|about the founding of a bank]]: > What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank? [[Slavoj Žižek]]'s joke [[Žižek's wheelbarrow joke|about wheelbarrows]]: > "There is an old story about a worker suspected of stealing: every evening, as he leaves the factory, the wheelbarrow he rolls in front of him is carefully inspected. The guards can find nothing. It is always empty. Finally, the penny drops: what the worker is stealing are the wheelbarrows themselves . . . ([[Violence (2008)|Violence]], p. 1)