I wonder: does anyone take the WMD stuff seriously? ******************************************************
I'd say that there were lots of working class and bourgeois people who took WMD seriously--including people in the military. I'd also say that most people don't like admitting that they've been taken for fools--especially men. They'd much rather come across as cynical practitioners of a 'gangster morality'. Thus, Elliot Ness is replaced by Frank Nitti. If the majority of the power amongst our ruling class accepts this, then they will increasingly lose their democracy to an narrow, ideologically motivated clique bent on establishing a clearly recognizable Fourth Reich.
Mike B)
===== ***************************************************************** The unreal unity proclaimed by the spectacle masks the class division underlying the real unity of the capitalist mode of production. What obliges the producers to participate in the construction of the world is also what excludes them from it. What brings people into relation with each other by liberating them from their local and national limitations is also what keeps them apart. What requires increased rationality is also what nourishes the irrationality of hierarchical exploitation and repression. What produces society’s abstract power also produces its concrete lack of freedom.
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