If my past writings are any indication, an intensely hierarchical, brutally stratified society ruled by fluctuating gradients and directions of universal exploitation, and which needs to constantly expand and incorporate other societies into itself as subordinate, is not exactly my idea of right living.
But at this point I am beyond contempt. We have reached the point at which fair judgments - however harsh - threaten to melt down and dissolve into the air. Now it is only disbelief, and desolation. There is no energy to rouse the snarled lip, only so much for a blank stare. The faith, the trust, is completely gone. I have my own ideas for productive directions, which will continue to be fleshed out here, but that is not for them.
No, what I wanted to show here is that even if you wanted to continue on a project of total domination, with a boot on the face of the marginalized and periphery forever - which itself comes with serious problems posed for longevity I might add, setting aside any sort of moral or ethical concern, or any sort of standard of justice - then you would have to do a lot more than what our sorry crop of "leaders" are doing now. By their own standards of success, they are lost.
But that is how things are now, on a very large scale. The most pressing facts assert themselves: like fireworks in the sky, the booms and flashes assault one's ears and eyes, and demand attention. World affairs have been quite astonishing, and the United States especially is a spectacular wreckage unfolding in slow motion. One has to become reconciled with the fact that what we are collectively reproducing is not production, but destruction, and a whole other set of implications follows from this.
