The purpose of life has gotten lost in the waves of thought that swirl and swarm in our masochistic mammal minds. Luckily Consumer Capitalism conjures a cacophony of cultural calamity that is of such a similar structure that nothing gets lots, the nonsense is without beginning or end and thus flows like the sewage in our innumerable cities. Lately what gets passed off as news has been especially hysterical feces laced vomitus. Let us give a brief lay of the lunacy that has lately entered the annals of hopelessness human idiocy.
My favorite occurrence of late is the ingenious machinations of Ali Abdullah Saleh. This guy is my favorite Muslim Despot currently reigning, and he has not let me down. While other countries just shoot their unarmed people, this man has the balls to actually attack his own Hashid tribe, and break timeless regional traditions by attacking Sheiks who are trying to mediate. He has now pulled out of three different negotiations to step down, and engaged in some fantastic PR stunts such as sending people into the town of Zanjibar to pretend to be Al-Qaeda and then announce to the world that they are going to take over part of the country if he leaves office. Saleh and Qaddafi are the true BAMFs and have no problem instigating civil wars rather than deal with the silliness of civil disobedience. I think it is pretty clear at this point that the current economic structure has no tolerance for anything resembling legitimate social change, and thus in a way they are being practical by instead going the route of traditional tribal/regional warfare over power.
On another note, reports are now surfacing that Qaddafi is using the same multinational corporations that the US Military and Friends utilize to recruit mercenaries. Now war profiteering is the largest component in modern warfare, but this sort of development is fucking bananas. The fact that we helped arm Qaddafi, then claimed it would be immoral to arm the Benghazi based rebels was bad enough, but letting him tap into our mercenary market! Suppose it all comes down to the fact the west will always cherish any situation where brown people perish whilst making us money. It is also taking neoliberal economic policies to their logical extreme.
Meanwhile people in the Imperial hinterland are still bitching and moaning about financial problems. The irony of an IMF chief trying to literally rape an African whilst the IMF figuratively has been rapping Africa for decades is pretty rich. Just as Stalin purportedly once commented, "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic' I suppose the rap of one African is a crime, but the rape of millions is just good business. Further proof that the entire monolith of modern economics is just a giant herd of half-sentient cattle that care about nothing save their ability to continuously graze, the value of the Euro dropped as a result of the sexual assault charges being filed.
If it is any consolation to you however, it does seem to be getting a lot more violent in the colonies and so may yet have the chance to and privileged people might soon have to go through life without being able to contentedly chew the cud of Consumer Capistalisms until the edifice comes crashing down upon us all.
"Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. And the wider and more numerous the fissures on the surface, the more the unity is strengthened in the depths." Carl Jung Civilization in Trasition
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