"You're Going To Reap Just What You Sow..."

"I think it is correct to say that depoliticized or aestheticized submission, along with all of the different forms of, in some cases, triumphalism and xenophobia, in others, apathy and defeat, have been principally required since the 1960's to allay whatever residual feelings of desire for democratic participation (also known as 'a danger to stability') still existed ... the argument is that too much democracy is bad for governability, which is that supply of passivity which makes it easier for oligarchies of technical or policy experts to push people into line. So if one is endlessly lectured by certified experts who explain that the freedom we all want demands deregulation and privatization or war and that the new world order is nothing less than the end of history, there is very little inclination to address this order with anything like individual or even collective demands. Chomsky has relentlessly addressed this paralyzing syndrome for several years."--Edward Said

Most Americans today are like Winston Smith at the end of 1984: sitting in the cafe, drinking the watered-down, greasy-textured gin, and waiting for the bullet in the back of the head. Everybody's gearing up for the 9/11/11 orgy of triumphalism and xenophobia, apathy and defeat. We will see Kcarab Amabo arm in arm with W. and other criminals. Now for a little bracing Lou Reed irony: "You're going to reap just what you sow..."