We live in the terminal days of Western civilization, and the institutional interests that have wormed their ways into the fabric of society – and which have long fed upon the resources and energies of individuals – now desperately work to reinforce their collapsing structures.
Our civilization is overly-politicized; grounded in the principle of violence. The state is the institutionalization of violence. But force is antithetical to life, for it makes life be what it does not choose to be; compels it to act contrary to the pursuit of its self-interests. The state wars against the spontaneity and autonomy that define life and make societies prosper.
This war against life processes has produced nothing of a creative nature, but much in the way of social and economic dysfunction. The "system" doesn’t work as we were conditioned to believe that it would: fostering peaceful, orderly, and productive social behavior. The intellectual, economic, and moral underpinnings of our culture are in a bankruptcy for which no Chapter 11 reorganization remedies are possible.
An essay by Butler Shaffer - gloomy, melancholy diatribe or a call to arms?
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