> I worked in DC for 13 years and saw Capital at it's ugliest. The
> thought of K Street lawyers et al lying in pools of blood does not
> appeal to me and would not solve our problems.
You need to play more 3D shooters. I was stating a metaphor, not recommending a course of action. The category of aesthetic violence is utterly different from real, social violence; if Benjamin was around, he'd say something like, there are no just wars, but there are just war films. The antinomy is that even the most horrifying vision of catastrophe is only this tiny flash of the reality of neoliberalism: the crime of demolishing two skyscrapers makes the world swoon, but the crime of demolishing Argentina merely raises a few eyebrows in the financial press.
-- Dennis