Nietzsche, of course, did not anticipate CDOs, credit default swaps, and other synthetic derivatives which would radiate from our fabulous Brain Trust, essentially killing the goose that laid the golden egg. So why is no one going after Moody’s or S&P? A CDO is a colossal tower of shit (the very worst of the subprime mortgages), packaged together and mysteriously given a AAA rating by the most prestigious agencies in New York. Talk about Weapons of Mass Destruction! Well whatever, nothing lasts forever I guess. So long capitalism, you had a brilliant run. What replaces it, I shudder to think.

Equality? Ha, no thank you. I’ve been to East Berlin, I’ve seen Equality, it’s not as nice as it sounds. The American version of Equality would be far worse: just look at what lives here…

The population of the United States did not increase by five times over the past twenty years, moron.

The ‘new middle class’ is just a herd of ‘office workers’ also known as ‘rotten spongers’ and ‘the something for nothing people’. The ‘old’ (or ‘real’, depending on your opinion) middle class, i.e. small and medium-sized employers is now being ‘creatively destroyed’ by Obama’s corrupt neo-pseudo-socialist administration.

These people cannot, and will not, raise against anything except GM foods and fur clothes.

The increase in the number of incarcerated Americans is just a belated response of the system to the situation where hard work is no longer seen as a viable option by the masses.

“This is how the country falls..”
(c) Cat Rapes Dog, 1999

also, that guy who wrote “i can’t say that I am not disappointed” instead of “i’m disappointed” is a wanker.

Don’t you remember the world is full of good people like you and me and mister Milton Friedman, George!

And to the folks extolling Marxist solutions, you really need to wake up. Marx himself was bankrolled by Wall Street luminaries when he was writing Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto. What happened in EVERY country that had a so-called commie revolution? That’s right, all wealth was expropriated from the people by the state that grew from the party, and everyone was reduced to serfdom while the elites ran the show.

Just like the direction this country is going if you insist on flying blind off a socialist cliff. Government is NOT the answer – liberty and sovereign individual rights are. Anyone who tells you he/she wants to save you from yourself is really saying they think they deserve to rule over you. Don’t fall for the left/right product marketing. Statists are all a den of vipers and thieves.

(But Baltimoron, as some of us are still trying to get laid here, would you please stop with the sexually reactionary language?  Maybe the “empowered” trim you scornfully speak of were themselves looking to score some easy male trim at the protests – so try to look past your penis when analyzing how pathetic and hopeless demonstrations are.) 

And I agree with Baltimoron’s analysis of the chances for change and the rational basis for hope in the U.S. – slim to none – but his adherence to Marxist analysis should be loosened a bit.  Aleke’s vision isn’t as focused, but that’s not a bad thing when the clarity of one’s vision is a near perfect measurement of how much of it is composed of bullshit.  Yeah there’s no proletariat to speak of in the U.S., but so what?  It’s not like Marx was right about the European proles getting their shit together and taking over the economy.  Who knows what will happen as economic organization unravels in the U.S.?  Probably a fascist, religious movement will take over, but maybe not.  Anyway, I’ve given up on trying to comfort the afflicted, so I like the idea of even a sporadic, unorganized, desperate and ultimately self-defeating class war (assuming there could be nothing better) if it means afflicting the comfortable – even temporarily.

Finally, to answer Baltimoron’s rhetorical question: the “‘class war’ counteroffensive” will solve the problems of monopoly capital stagnation, capitalist “democracy”, and the USian working class’ disconnection from the rest of the world’s working class by – assuming that something like a class war (where *two* sides are fighting) actually materializes – destroying the present organization of the world economy.  From which something better, or something even worse, can arise.

It’s more interesting anyway to watch what goes on in China.  Thankfully, I’m ignorant enough about China to be able to place a lot of hope in it; but not ignorant enough for my hope to be completely unfounded.  For instance, in today’s WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123780272456212885.html#mod=testMod …  now if China and other countries successfully institute a new reserve currency, and stop buying U.S. debt, there will be no more U.S. empire, hundreds of worldwide bases will close down, and there will be a lot of unemployed soldiers back in the good ol’ U.S. of A.  And that’s change that Ames, Baltimoron, Aleke and I can believe in.

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Anyway, to all the people tripping over each other hurriedly trying to condemn the idea of any broad cultural revolt as unrealistic, how about all the mid-to-late 20th century immigrants? The perpetual white underclass that came here as indentured servants and are now the ascribed ‘white trash’ may not stop sucking the dick of their perpetual masters, but that isn’t necessarily true of the sometimes swarthy, sometimes Catholic fuckers that have set up shop recently.

But really, instead of going into ethnic demographics, we have to consider probability and chance. Thanks to the fucked up, irrevocably complex and random nature of occurrences, much less human events, we can’t possibly predict something that can start at the stroke of a butterfly’s wings. The demographics can align. The power vaccuum can embolden. Chaotic world events can exacerbate.

God knows the conditions are there. Plenty of things happening and plenty of civilizational institutions undwinding. A Black Swan event can occur in any sphere and ignite a massive societal change. And we’ll paint it as obvious. This isn’t a massive wealth transfer during the acme of American power. This is an enormous, opaque world crisis that concerns more people than ever before, more powers than ever before, and more dire straits than ever before. Panic of 1837, the Long Depression, and the Great Depression were set in a world that was not in any relatable way as interconnected as the one we’re in now. The only way it would be worse is if peak oil hit or if we affected global warming ~10 years earlier than we did (although it looks like we’ll reach that nice old mass extinction event faster than the IPCC outlined).

Mark Ames is doing what he should be doing. What every reporter should be doing. Guiding us to the Lovecraftian root of our problems. Then, maybe, we won’t need our favorite writers offering lurid post-apocalyptic outlines. And we could go back to lamenting the further degredation and collapse of western civilization in abstract, detached terms. You know, instead of feverishly living it.