With instantaneous access to experience everywhere available not only through computers but now through cellphones, the boundary between here and there is no longer clear. This development is momentous because that boundary has served as the first marker in human consciousness, the primal source of identity and meaning. Persons become who they are - members of family, tribe, people, nation - by pacing out territory and discovering who shares it. *******************************************************
The origins of private property and the State, sans commodity production.....We define ourselves primarily by what we own.
Mike B)
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But what is territory in the age of television? Migration, mass media, McWorld, the mall - the very structures of contemporary life are sources of a literal displacement. Human beings across the world are left wondering, Where am I? *****************************************************
The globalization of Capital translates into the angst of decaying nationhood.
Mike B) ******************************************************* But Americans, assuming a natural right to dominance, find an answer by staking a claim to the globe itself. The aim of our wars launched in uncertain time is to redefine uncertain space. America is the world. Every place is our place. *******************************************************
The will to power, reified and redefined by modern circumstance translates into the triumph of American Imperialism.
Regards, 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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