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you bomb the iraqi children, and we'll extract the human rights from their corpses. this symbolic ritual is called "democracy".
the problem is thinking that people have a choice between abandoning their creature comforts stopping the war. the problem is thinking people give their consent or mandate to the governments of democracies. they don't. only a retard would think they do. consent is manufactured. discourse is commodified or it is not heard. there is no god or big other that is paying attention to what your opinions. that's why we have debates. so that nothing changes.
hedonism has replaced the social contract in post liberal societies. and so if the war and genocide makes you feel bad you change the channel. after all, if you feel bad there's no point in life, because life is ONLY about hedonism and anyone who says different is a fascist trying to take away your enjoyment/self/individualism.
individualism is fascism, if i say that loud enough on this board or any other i'll get shouted down and ripped apart but its true.
i'm still writing a response to ddd's post btw.
and to glice, yes i do see what you are saying about the protests in london these past few days. i'm just sceptical because as a leftist growing up in the 90's and 00's i have none NOTHING but defeat. and thus the idea of victory does not seem possible anymore, and frankly it is simply difficult to try and pyschologicaly adjust to the idea that victory could be possible. even though these protests are the best indications we've had of that for a long time. i am simply burnt out from building up my hopes and having them crushed endlessly.
i doubt we can return to social democracy. but what the hell COULD we return to? some sort of quasi socialist isolationist state that just hopes american won't nuke or invade it? they have their bases here, i highly doubt they would ALLOW a government hostile to their interests to form in the UK. we can maybe wait until they no longer really have the power to do so, but i still doubt the likelihood we will have a government here prepared to say "fuck off you utterly insane bunch of christians."
i mean what, fucking miliband? are we going to have another round of weak messianism for our new soft left saviour. i may be young but i'm not going to forget blair that easily.
it comes down to america, if i see the movement we've had in the past week here happening over there then i'll start to sit up and pay attention. i highly doubt america is heading for anything other than suicide thru outstretched empire tho. and i highly doubt any american is actually prepared to do anything to stop this. they will drink until the last coke can is gone and it makes them too depressed to see themselves as not "wanting to" because then they'd have to face up to how hopeless things are.
post modern capitalism is in the same position sovietism was in its dying days. i even tried to hash out an article comparing irony/vice mag type humour to socialist realism. shit. pretend i didnt say that. that's MY idea and i need to keep it to myself until i can get a book deal.
read john gray. its millenarianism. end of history (ism) is being used to justify the insanity of infinite global expansion and liberal democracy at the barrel of gun after you've been bombed and your father has been shot in the head because he tried to stop soldiers from raping his wife. they will greet us as liberators. after all saddam was a dictator. therefore lets murder a million people and bomb their infastructure. well if you don't agree that's just your opinion and everything is just opinions because there's no truth. so shut up and leave me alone. we are murdering them so they can have the right to free speech. because noone can talk without the god democraticus bestowing the power of speech on them. so shut up and enjoy yourself.
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