The US Empire’s Impending Suicide
Libertarian optimists are today joined by pessimists of all stripes in “noticing” the decline, decrepitude and desperation of Washington’s empire. Those who believe in the state, admire the state, and are consumed by the state are acutely aware its pillars are collapsing. The ship is sinking, rivets are popping, and steel screaming. We can all see the realization of what the near future holds in each other’s eyes.
The US as a republic, created to ensure individual liberty and oppose the overweaning state, is long gone, smothered in its crib before it was a day old. 200 years later, even the lepidopteran Fukuyama – feeding upon the nectar of a perfect neoliberal dreamscape in the late 1980s – was not oblivious to reality. His later work intimates that winter is coming.
Winter is a time of both rest and quickening, of reflection and new ideas, of healing and slow strengthening of roots, of anticipation. It pairs well with sleep, where both physical and mental peace and order is systemically restored. The US, as a system of domestic and global empire, is long overdue for such healing, and in the case of imperial ambitions, a permanent sleep. We, as subjects and slaves of this sick empire, sorely need restoration of peace and order, the kind that is only generated from deep within.
Many of us hold the US government to be on suicide watch – we have long observed its repeated actions of self-harm, hopelessness, exceptional and dangerous risk-taking. The Leviathan is intent upon killing itself, but we ought not blithely celebrate the suicide of the state. It defines itself in terms of all of us, and this will be a murder-suicide if the state gets its way.
The signs are undeniable, and while it isn’t polite to laugh out loud, we aren’t all trained counselors and will be forgiven for our incredulity.
In a remarkable lack of self-awareness, in the category of “trying to help average Americans in a time of state designed and implemented inflation” we have the utter and breathtaking brilliance of “Goldman Finds Top Supermarket Offering The Best Grocery Deals.” It’s Walmart. This valuable piece of investigatory work on behalf of the American people was reported in an effort to help Americans find the best deal, because we need the state for that. Oops, I confused Goldman with the state
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