Celebrating The Atomic Bomb

"What is deadly is not the much-discussed atomic bomb as this particular death-dealing machine. What has long since been threatening man with death, and indeed with the death of his own nature, is the unconditional character of mere willing in the sense of purposeful self-assertion in everything. What threatens man in his very nature is the willed view that man, by the peaceful release, transformation, storage, and channeling of the energies of physical nature, could render the human condition, man's being, tolerable for everybody and happy in all respects. But the peace of this peacefulness is merely the undisturbed continuing relentlessness of the fury of self-assertion which is resolutely self-reliant. What threatens man in his very nature is the view that this imposition of production can be ventured without any danger, as long as other interests besides--such as, perhaps, the interests of a faith--retain their currency. As though it were still possible for that essential relation to the whole of beings in which man is placed by the technological exercise of his will to find a separate abode in some side-structure which would offer more than a temporary escape into those self-deceptions among which we must count also the flight to the Greek gods! What threatens man in his very nature is the view that technological production puts the world in order, while in fact this ordering is precisely what levels every ordo, every rank, down to the uniformity of production, and thus from the outset destroys the realm from which any rank and recognition could possibly arise."

--Martin Heidegger, "What Are Poets For?" Tr. Albert Hofstadter.

Opiate Of The American Masses

In this book, Kelly Denton-Borhaug analyzes the way in which American Christianity supplies the Military-Industrial-Complex with the rhetorical and mythological resources it requires to "justify" War-Without-End to the American public.

A tour de force of theologically-informed rhetorical criticism.

But Then, In The UK, Totalitarianism Was Always Just Beneath The Surface

Nazism and the Royal family.

Totalitarianism

UK style.

After More Than A Half Century Of Non-Violent Non-Cooperation...

The great people of Cuba outlasted the will of the Empire to destroy them. Congratulations!

Guns, Guns, Guns!

Colorado.
Tennessee.

Lessons From Greece

Lessons from Greece: The pseudo-left in power

Greek Government Repudiates Results Of Austerity Referendum

Greek government approves brutal austerity measures in proposal to EU - World Socialist Web Site

And so it goes...

Hakim Bey

"Anarchist traditionalism."

E.U.-ism

The Greek "bailout."

Americanism

Michael Vlahos on our "high-church politics and sacred war."