We have contradicting reports.
In the UK and the US wealth and income inequality compare favourably (i.e. are similar or larger) to 19th century realities –a trend already established in the late 90’s, and accentuating ever since. To diverging extent, all countries of the European continent are following suit. And the richest neo-rich guy is from Mexico.
Economically some say the US debt-financed gluttony is such, that it resembles the last days of the Ottoman Empire, the Great Patient of the early 19th century. It might as well mean that the European Holly Alliance –and possibly- ‘the rest of the world’ will soon realise the Patient has started to fart uncontrollably, and that the stench is engulfing their entire cherished system of economic and social reality.
However eloquent, this analysis is rather rubbish. It is clear that the US and global situation right now, is a replay of the Gilded Age / Great Depression sequence. Having bled over 90% of the population white, the bourgeoisie discovers that it cannot gain any more $$$, simply because there is no one left with any to extract from. More than the apparent impossibility for a Keynesian turn in the present conjuncture we lament the total lack of social and artistic consciousness. As the American literature (and art in toto) presently consists of socially irrelevant post-multi-media bollockisms, the artefact that encapsulates the consciousness of the present era is “The Mask of the Red Death” (E.A Poe, 1842)
Geopolitically, the US is behaving like the Roman Empire at its last throws of despair in the 5th century, while 1/7 of the world population genuinely aspires to rid off all this anthropocentric heresy and lead the world full on into the dark, dark Middle Ages (5th to 10th century). Meanwhile Mother Russia has a new Czar set –like Ivan the Terrible- to rebuilt its empire (16th century), so the most forward-leaning power at present is China, who has with some 70 years delay joined the Top Imperialist club. It has finally managed to cease being a “communist” dictatorship, and morphed into a Fascist state. It seems like that 1930’s revisited over there, and given the gargantuan appetite for armaments in the region, we are eagerly anticipating WWII to erupt –a bit to the right of the map this time.
It is obvious that only calendar-fundamentalist knobheads can still insist that we live in the 21st century. In fact, every individual is presented with the choice of a vast array of past epochs to identify its ‘contemporariness’. And can switch epochs of reference a few times per day: as a worker, one may belong to 1830; as a consumer to 1916; as a woman to 938 –and so on. While “post-modern” academicians might well wet their pants over this, for the rest of us the issue is how to land a monumental kick into this atrocious time warp, and set humanity to a genuinely new Parallel Universe.
FUTURE NOW!
In the UK and the US wealth and income inequality compare favourably (i.e. are similar or larger) to 19th century realities –a trend already established in the late 90’s, and accentuating ever since. To diverging extent, all countries of the European continent are following suit. And the richest neo-rich guy is from Mexico.
Economically some say the US debt-financed gluttony is such, that it resembles the last days of the Ottoman Empire, the Great Patient of the early 19th century. It might as well mean that the European Holly Alliance –and possibly- ‘the rest of the world’ will soon realise the Patient has started to fart uncontrollably, and that the stench is engulfing their entire cherished system of economic and social reality.
However eloquent, this analysis is rather rubbish. It is clear that the US and global situation right now, is a replay of the Gilded Age / Great Depression sequence. Having bled over 90% of the population white, the bourgeoisie discovers that it cannot gain any more $$$, simply because there is no one left with any to extract from. More than the apparent impossibility for a Keynesian turn in the present conjuncture we lament the total lack of social and artistic consciousness. As the American literature (and art in toto) presently consists of socially irrelevant post-multi-media bollockisms, the artefact that encapsulates the consciousness of the present era is “The Mask of the Red Death” (E.A Poe, 1842)
Geopolitically, the US is behaving like the Roman Empire at its last throws of despair in the 5th century, while 1/7 of the world population genuinely aspires to rid off all this anthropocentric heresy and lead the world full on into the dark, dark Middle Ages (5th to 10th century). Meanwhile Mother Russia has a new Czar set –like Ivan the Terrible- to rebuilt its empire (16th century), so the most forward-leaning power at present is China, who has with some 70 years delay joined the Top Imperialist club. It has finally managed to cease being a “communist” dictatorship, and morphed into a Fascist state. It seems like that 1930’s revisited over there, and given the gargantuan appetite for armaments in the region, we are eagerly anticipating WWII to erupt –a bit to the right of the map this time.
It is obvious that only calendar-fundamentalist knobheads can still insist that we live in the 21st century. In fact, every individual is presented with the choice of a vast array of past epochs to identify its ‘contemporariness’. And can switch epochs of reference a few times per day: as a worker, one may belong to 1830; as a consumer to 1916; as a woman to 938 –and so on. While “post-modern” academicians might well wet their pants over this, for the rest of us the issue is how to land a monumental kick into this atrocious time warp, and set humanity to a genuinely new Parallel Universe.
FUTURE NOW!
