America's Right Senator Peter Hoekstra uses explicit racism to push for nationalist pride and populist support.
"There is a zone of nonbeing, an extraordinarily sterile and arid region, an utterly naked declivity where an authentic upheaval can be born."
- Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
The indulgence of capitalist exploitation passes through the periphery of a self-deprecating culture. Since the advent of global capitalism and neoliberalism, the facade of a progressive ideological Left marketed by its American-consumer populism, has morally extorted its believers. "Ethical consumption" through the means of "ethical exploitation," (i.e. Fair Trade, Sustainable Trade) white wash transitioning to green wash transitioning to the ideological fabric of a commodity fetish. The identification of a commodity is marked by the alienation of its labor. However, if the alienation of the labor is supplemented by the spectacle of the commodity, then cyclic nature of exploitation continues without a trace. Henry Ford kept the lines running by having the workers believe that they could afford the product at the end of the year. Yet the authentic horror of post-slavery comes when the worker cannot even kill himself at the factory buildings of Foxconn after working a twenty-hour shift1.
The neo-nationalist propaganda is under the farce of a competitive national market. The Left stresses the need to "buy local," while the the Right pushes a xenophobic urgency. (Yet continuing to cooperate in currency manipulation so that Americans can shop at Walmart or Target for the 'daily low prices.') As markets crash in Europe and austerity measures beacon over the horizon in the West, Asian markets flourish. While America and Europe puts hope in Keneysian Economics bailing out billionaires but stripping away everything else, state/authoritarian capitalist markets such as Singapore and China, bank on fear with single party despotism.
If there was one thing to prove from the current global financial crisis it would be that democracy has failed. It is throughout history that domination and coercion are implicit factors for an economy's prosperity. Slavery is an inherent facet of capitalist hegemony and the necessary violence inflicted to an Other is tantamount to its dominion. The Emancipation of Proclamation was only issued to the Southern Confederation and exempted many Northern states and parishes, enslaved Africans in Haiti helped broaden Charles the Fifth's expansion of the Spanish Empire, the discovery of sugar in the 16th century led to colonization and enslavement of indigenous Brazilians, not to mention modern slavery of the 21st century where 1.8 million children in West Africa are at the servitude to Westerner's sweet tooth for chocolate 2. Democracy is the idealistic wet dream of a dystopian reality; an illusion that is rendered from a false hope that humanity is capable of global equality while making a profit. More, consumers can ethically consume all that is left in the ecological infrastructure at the expense of the blood of the Other. It is the fabrication that through a democratically elected political system, people all over the world can enter a "free market" while somehow respecting cultures, land, and people.
Revolutions are the noose that will asphyxiate the masses. Populism of the Left and Right is the result of a desperate nation's reaction to a current catastrophe. Hope presents itself in the bosom of disparity but negating to realize the horror of the catastrophic Real. In Adorno's last letters to Marcuse, Adorno lamented the false idealism and actual desperation of the student Left, that a fragmented SDS could only solidify its organization through the spectacle of a seeming act of "subversion" and by doing so embodies a "leftist fascist" tendency3. Similarly, with the rise of the Arab Spring, the potential for a fascistic undercurrent of a democratic revolution only placates the haunting reality of religious hegemony in the political. Exemplified in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, the masses gathered through Friday Prayer to accomplish a religious solidarity to topple a regime. Just as in the Iranian Revolution from 1977-79, the superego will present itself in the relics of an old regime's decay. The sheep do not and will not leave its flock. (Herrschaft und Knechtschaft tends to be more apparent under the backdrop of the religious. Nihil sine deo.)
As the masters devise the next move, the solution is not an alternative. It is with the trap of the alternative that substantiates a ideological plane of stagnation. As Peter Sloterdijk points out in Rage and Time, it is through the rage of Achilles that begins Homer's Iliad. Likewise, it is through an equally dynamic rage and antagonism that fulfills a dialectic. In response, to the irresponsible agents of capital, your fate spawns through your actions. The karmic destiny of a ceaseless reign of defilement will counter by an equally destructive force, a continual bombardment of nihilistic antagonisms, or the phase of self-destruction. Symptoms of the plague starts as an itch. Bon appetit!
If there was one thing to prove from the current global financial crisis it would be that democracy has failed. It is throughout history that domination and coercion are implicit factors for an economy's prosperity. Slavery is an inherent facet of capitalist hegemony and the necessary violence inflicted to an Other is tantamount to its dominion. The Emancipation of Proclamation was only issued to the Southern Confederation and exempted many Northern states and parishes, enslaved Africans in Haiti helped broaden Charles the Fifth's expansion of the Spanish Empire, the discovery of sugar in the 16th century led to colonization and enslavement of indigenous Brazilians, not to mention modern slavery of the 21st century where 1.8 million children in West Africa are at the servitude to Westerner's sweet tooth for chocolate 2. Democracy is the idealistic wet dream of a dystopian reality; an illusion that is rendered from a false hope that humanity is capable of global equality while making a profit. More, consumers can ethically consume all that is left in the ecological infrastructure at the expense of the blood of the Other. It is the fabrication that through a democratically elected political system, people all over the world can enter a "free market" while somehow respecting cultures, land, and people.
Revolutions are the noose that will asphyxiate the masses. Populism of the Left and Right is the result of a desperate nation's reaction to a current catastrophe. Hope presents itself in the bosom of disparity but negating to realize the horror of the catastrophic Real. In Adorno's last letters to Marcuse, Adorno lamented the false idealism and actual desperation of the student Left, that a fragmented SDS could only solidify its organization through the spectacle of a seeming act of "subversion" and by doing so embodies a "leftist fascist" tendency3. Similarly, with the rise of the Arab Spring, the potential for a fascistic undercurrent of a democratic revolution only placates the haunting reality of religious hegemony in the political. Exemplified in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, the masses gathered through Friday Prayer to accomplish a religious solidarity to topple a regime. Just as in the Iranian Revolution from 1977-79, the superego will present itself in the relics of an old regime's decay. The sheep do not and will not leave its flock. (Herrschaft und Knechtschaft tends to be more apparent under the backdrop of the religious. Nihil sine deo.)
As the masters devise the next move, the solution is not an alternative. It is with the trap of the alternative that substantiates a ideological plane of stagnation. As Peter Sloterdijk points out in Rage and Time, it is through the rage of Achilles that begins Homer's Iliad. Likewise, it is through an equally dynamic rage and antagonism that fulfills a dialectic. In response, to the irresponsible agents of capital, your fate spawns through your actions. The karmic destiny of a ceaseless reign of defilement will counter by an equally destructive force, a continual bombardment of nihilistic antagonisms, or the phase of self-destruction. Symptoms of the plague starts as an itch. Bon appetit!
