Negri Interview

[Brad Mayer]

No kidding...shades of King Lear, or Akira Kurosawa's version of it, Ran (= 
"chaos").  The Great Lord of the House of Ichimonji as Washington, 
post-Cold War.  The first two sons, Taro, Jiro, the fawning, treacherous 
"allies".  The third, banished, son, Saburo - that's us!  And then there's 
the cute court jester of Ichmonji who, as the Great Lord was about to rush 
off to his final catastrophe at the Third Castle, mocked him with, "That's 
right! Why wait, when Hell is close by!".  Humm, that could be us, too...:-)

At 06:24 PM 10/24/01 -0400, you wrote:
>This horrible story which happened in New
>York, it's a sort of Shakespearean tragedy, is it not? It's the
>family, royal, or imperial rather, which has torn itself, even if the
>characters like little Bush and his friends aren't really up to the
>script. We are seeing the struggle between the dollar-taliban and the
>oil-taliban They have been built one with the other, one on the other
>and now, it is hate which reigns. It's not about war, but vengeance!
>Do you not find it horrible to be immersed once again in this old
>reality of shakespearean violence, in this climate of primitive
>accumulation, as Marx would have had it?