Economy is only ever a dominant form of life in moments of crisis, of total collapse – and it is here that the theological qualities are revealed. This becomes confused to the highest degree in our time since the economic appears everywhere, but this is rather like the appearance of medical services after an accident, or field hospitals set up for great battles. The mass distribution of supplies, the frantic work of doctors and labourers crop up as types of armament and response to crisis, but tell us little of the crisis itself. Neither its meaning nor its judgement can be understood from the surface activity.
Today, such forces become more powerful than ever and the polarity between them creates an empty space where thought and sight are both abandoned. This too accelerates the crisis, as the responses become confused with all the other frantic activity. Here it becomes necessary to situate the crises within the world order, however impossible it may seem.
If we are to see the great events which begin the millennium there can be no doubt that those in power abandoned all previous laws and values. 9/11, the declaration of a permanent emergency, the nationalisation of the economy, economic collapse, establishment of the total intelligence institutions, and the beginning of a world war all reveal a world order dominated by military decision, escalation of conflict, and subterfuge of political movements. There is no possibility of seeing our economic condition without first recognising the total crisis.
And it is here that we see the collision of the imperial and domestic economies, the neutralisation of territories based upon distribution of emergency supplies. It may not seem this way in the domestic sphere, but one can look back to the image of the door-to-door salesmen with their shopping carts filled with junk. These street capitalists were no different from the homeless and refugees. This suggests a dissolution of identity which preceded the fanaticism of the new progressives, and total pauperism was the only possible response.
Here we see that the mobilisation of non-citizens serves two functions: first, in giving the new pauperism a sense of continued growth and progress. Second, in the total dispersal of the crisis away from the political. Just as the colour revolutionaries are a sort of forward unit of the neutralisation in foreign territories, the new progressives act as human shields within the social war at home. Both are a development from the partisan within the world civil war, they are a result of impossible earth forces, not their cause.
Today, such forces become more powerful than ever and the polarity between them creates an empty space where thought and sight are both abandoned. This too accelerates the crisis, as the responses become confused with all the other frantic activity. Here it becomes necessary to situate the crises within the world order, however impossible it may seem.
If we are to see the great events which begin the millennium there can be no doubt that those in power abandoned all previous laws and values. 9/11, the declaration of a permanent emergency, the nationalisation of the economy, economic collapse, establishment of the total intelligence institutions, and the beginning of a world war all reveal a world order dominated by military decision, escalation of conflict, and subterfuge of political movements. There is no possibility of seeing our economic condition without first recognising the total crisis.
And it is here that we see the collision of the imperial and domestic economies, the neutralisation of territories based upon distribution of emergency supplies. It may not seem this way in the domestic sphere, but one can look back to the image of the door-to-door salesmen with their shopping carts filled with junk. These street capitalists were no different from the homeless and refugees. This suggests a dissolution of identity which preceded the fanaticism of the new progressives, and total pauperism was the only possible response.
Here we see that the mobilisation of non-citizens serves two functions: first, in giving the new pauperism a sense of continued growth and progress. Second, in the total dispersal of the crisis away from the political. Just as the colour revolutionaries are a sort of forward unit of the neutralisation in foreign territories, the new progressives act as human shields within the social war at home. Both are a development from the partisan within the world civil war, they are a result of impossible earth forces, not their cause.