Class-conflicted BS

I take it back. This descent into barbarism is not some metaphysical pataphysical absurdist drama. It's about a few people using the fascist state apparatus to protect their ill-gotten gains and vested interests.* It makes sense--perfectly bad sense.

The longer it takes, the more I worry about our country's future. There's at least one generation that grew up on ersatz milk, instant noodles, noontime shows, and bad textbooks. And they're the lucky ones. What do they dream? What does anybody dream these days?

I see dirty and naked children in the streets all the time, and what do I do? I steel myself against pity. And I know that every single instance of this will come back to me because we are all connected. These are evil times, indeed, when we have to give up chunks of our humanity just to stay sane. For what?

Years ago, somebody told me that maybe there's nothing for it but to Aufhebung. I'm fine with this but it doesn't make it all right [mp3].

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*This is an over-simplification for practical purposes. Their thick-skinned swaggering powers were vested in them not by the people but by their masters. The context is imperialism, always.