Thursday, December 15, 2016

The People Tire of Capitalism

The people tire of capitalism. It no longer dazzles. It appears now as a sad and brutal beast lumbering across landscapes, destroying everything -- other creatures, the beautiful, people's souls and their will. The people tire of capitalism.

Friday, December 2, 2016

An Unending Election or a Culture Ending?

Why does it feel as if the election is not over? The deluge of information about political creatures - foremost among these, the great charlatan Donnie Tynahands, but including the cipher beings Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton - continues. It is sordid, baffling, contradictory, always courting incredulity and always straddling the line between coherency and incoherency.

Perhaps what we are experiencing is not properly the sense of an election that is not over – but rather the sense of an empire and, indeed, a culture that is buckling and finally collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. The three ludicrous and terrifying founding fictions of the nation - that humans are somehow distinct from and superior to the rest of nature / that there are separate "races" of human beings / and that the purpose of existence is to pursue one's own personal greed to its always vanishing endpoint - were never a recipe for success. Are we now witness to the endgame of these wretched beliefs? One thing is for sure: the show, the spectacle is utterly mad.