a brutish, violent upending of the soul--get out the jellies
"I do not understand the 50-million-odd
Bush supporters; I do not know how to reason with them. I feel like we live on
different planets." - Steven
Shaviro.<
sometimes, only a brutish, violent
upending of the soul can account for the world's
depravity
><rant cut-and-pasted from various
sources: a mirror of the times>Can
someone please explain to me why Kerry is asking for unification and
conciliation?You're telling me that he'd
like to see America united under a mandate of discriminatory and theocratic
policies such as anti-homosexuality, anti-intellectualism and anti-abortion, a
theo-militaristic state devoted to controlling the world's resources through
violence and bloodshed and to endocolonizing its poor (bets are on for the
draft...), destroying the global environment, and taking on the mantle of
supreme world Empire as it triggers the apocalyptic mayhem the globe's religious
zealots so desperately ache for?And the
Democrats are supposed to bend over and snort like the urbanite-turned-pig in
Deliverance?IF
there was ever a time for the opposition to theocratic authoritarianism in
America to step forward and say No, we
don't agree, and there will be no
reconciliation, it is now. There is no healing--
the ointment Kerry is urging you to apply is there to lube up all the necessary
orifices. The Religious Party has a full house, kids; the Senate and the Supreme
Court too. There is nothing they cannot
pass.The United States of America is now
officially a one-party State, and it is not a party of the people, and even if
it was, being a party of the people doesn't make you
good.There
is no opposition, furthermore, because the "opposition" lacks the resolve to
call the truth of the moment. Yah, the truth: what Zizek argues for in Lenin's
1917 writings is a kind of beyond-the-niceness clarity to the scenario. The
truth of the moment is that you don't bend over backwards for an enemy that will
take that defeatist politesse as the cue to destroy everything you stand
for. There will be no Democrat
party sooner or later: the Dems aren't waking up
to the greater trend here. Doesn't anyone
read The Art of
War anymore, Machiavelli or Clausewitz?
The Book of
Revelations? It's all in Karl Rove's handbook to
a hundred year rule--it applies regardless of party affiliation and it comes
down to the old adage: Know Thy
Enemy.Twenty percent of the US voted for
Bush; just under twenty for Kerry. The majority spoke loud and clear: they don't
care (yah, Baudrillard was right again). Can you imagine if a majority quorum
was required? If this voting stuff was
mandatory?So is that sixty percent, as
some people believe, "naive" or "ignorant"? Is it because of a pervading
influence of entertainment media that our
episteme
has flipped from one of the subject to the object? Or is it the confirmation of
the fact that the politicization of the masses still has yet to take place in
the US of A--or that the politicization has taken place, and its polis is that
of the Church?The analysis is nary
irrelevant if one imagines, just for a moment, that this experiment called
representative democracy has
failed,
that its appearance is just that: the sheen on the controlling mechanisms of
transnational corporations and Empire-building, Earth-destroying coalitions that
owe their perspective to a confirmed sense of indulgent pride of being the
chosen ones to enact their holy place in history (or more accurately, its end).
Beyond democracy, we're talking about the reign of emperors, the reign of power
that neither democracy nor communism has ever managed to tame.
We're talking about owning the planet and
fucking it up real good.The Dems
don't need to try and pamper the support of that geographical swath of red that
separates the blue islands of east and west. It needs to recognise that the
kinds of people who are in power now are the kinds of people who, during the
Civil War, were down with slavery. The Confederation is in power: the South won
by incorporating its nastiness into the hypocritical liberalism of the North
(hypocritical because the North's plan to abolish slavery was just another
election promise). And now the word is, from on high: love thy fellow Americans
who hate you because you are an ass-fucking, baby-aborting
non-believer.Yah,
right.Time to watch
Easy Rider
again. Get the
picture?</rant>*
Amended: Abe notes via this article that the turnout was closer to
sixty percent; thus the actual figures are more likely to be just over
twenty-odd percent for Bush, just under for Kerry, with forty to fifty percent
non-voters (that is, the figures we know
about).**
From the newly launched (kudos) Indymedia.us
:"But the truth may be much simpler and
harder to swallow: We are living in an extremely right wing,
conservative religious country with fanatics at the helm who believe
they rule
by divine right.If so, those
yearning for change in this country might have to stop relying on protest
marches in New York and San Franscisco and start going to Sunday Mass in the
midwest."Hear ye, hear
ye.*** Check out Greg Palast, who claims
Kerry won.
posted. Thu - November 4, 2004 @ 01:31 PM
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