"Situation Excellent, I Am Attacking"

William Rivers Pitt

"That's the spirit, George. If nothing else works, then a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through."
-- General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, 'Blackadder Goes Forth'

There is not enough grammar in the entirety of the English language to describe the incredible international humiliation that has befallen the United States of America. That this humiliation was brought down upon the American people by the man supposedly in charge of the country is, in all honesty, no big surprise for those who have been watching this all unfold. The layers of crushing embarrassment have been building like river sediment for months upon months upon months. On Tuesday, however, George W. Bush managed to completely obliterate the hard-won standing the United States has earned within the global community.

mobiustrip44 writes:

"Should Anarchists Support Suicide Bombers?"

"I am an exceptionally active Jewish anarchist who once resided in Israel and currently has many relatives living there. Lately I've been getting really fed up with some of my anarchist friends when we're discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because often, like Rachel Corrie, you can hear the restrained hero-worship of Palestinian suicide bombers beneath the subtext of their arguments. They wear kaffiyehs in solidarity, and scrawl "Israel out of Palestine" on bathroom walls, purportedly identifying with the Palestinian independence struggle, like this clown at the WTO demo in Cancun doing his best impression of a rock-tossing Palestinian teenager.

Depth Squad Distro writes:

AFTER 9/11: CONFORMISM, INSUBORDINATION, AND THE GOOD LIFE. AN INTERVIEW WITH PATRICK HOGAN

by Don LaCoss

DL: Your book, The Culture of Conformism: Understanding Social Consent (Duke UP), came out in May 2001. Since its publication, there have been a number of crucial incidents, both here in the US and around the world, which directly relate to some of the problems of “the new conformism” that your book explores. Do recent events change your thinking on “the new conformism,” or do you believe instead that they provide stronger support for your book’s arguments?

PH: In part, the book presents a general account of why people—all of us—consent to hegemonic or dominant practices, even when those practices clearly harm us or run against our interests. It develops that general account in terms of recent historical and cultural particulars. The particulars, obviously, vary. The basic principles, however, should be broadly valid. In other words, the scope of the book is not confined to the new conformism. Rather, the new conformism is a particularization of more widely applicable principles—a particularization that has pushed very strongly against the open rebelliousness that had developed in the 1960’s.

"Memory/System/Prediction"

Kurt Eckhart

"The anarchistic aim of the production of a post-scarcity society in toto hinges on the development and deployment of such technologies of non-scarcity. Emergent technologies such as 'fabbing' and nanotechnology will in essence make it possible to produce the real -- based on the internet's real-time and predictive data -- allowing a perfect fit of production and consumption. The abolishment of scarcity once and for all becomes possible. The goal of the anarchist syndicates must be to accelerate the creation and adoption of such technologies, turning each home from a site of consumption into a site of simulation-aided production. Each home must become not only a miniaturized ecology (though the use of infrastructural technologies) but also a miniaturized factory. Though this the autoproduction of the real becomes possible through the digital."

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