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roachboy · 08-03-2007, 09:15 AM

the linkage between student loan money and selective service registration (lining yourself up to be cannonfodder in defense of an order that does not particularly care about your politics) is yet another gift from the reagan administration.

it's obvious why: as the american empire degenerates while run by people who cannot face that obvious fact, it becomes increasingly likely that there will be deadly neocolonial adventures that will require bodies. such a colonial adventure could happen in colombia in defense of those vital banana flows we rely on so much. one could happen anywhere and for every one there is a need for bodies. someone else's body of course.

so thanks to the reagan administration, if you want student loan money to attend university--where you might learn the actual history of american use of its military and derive the basis for principled objections to the adventures of commerce in the military sphere---you have to sign up to participate in potentia in just those adventures.

if you interpret this at a remove, the message is: in this land of "freedom" that is the american empire, it does not really matter what you say, what you know, what you think--you are still just a body which is wholly expendible in the interest of profits flows. it is particularly important that this bit of Instruction as to the nasty underpinning of this place where we all wander about talking in glowing terms about how lovely lovely and free we are be handed down as you try to go to university, dont you think?

well but it is a law and because it is a law you must submit and this is how american exercise intellectual freedom through a virtuosity in rationalizing submission. this is what we are. so at this point, if you want the loans, you have to sign up to be magically transformed into cannonfodder at the appropriate moment. because this is real, it is rational. a fine instance of intellectual freedom american style, that.

08-03-2007, 09:15 AM	#17 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	the linkage between student loan money and selective service registration (lining yourself up to be cannonfodder in defense of an order that does not particularly care about your politics) is yet another gift from the reagan administration. it's obvious why: as the american empire degenerates while run by people who cannot face that obvious fact, it becomes increasingly likely that there will be deadly neocolonial adventures that will require bodies. such a colonial adventure could happen in colombia in defense of those vital banana flows we rely on so much. one could happen anywhere and for every one there is a need for bodies. someone else's body of course. so thanks to the reagan administration, if you want student loan money to attend university--where you might learn the actual history of american use of its military and derive the basis for principled objections to the adventures of commerce in the military sphere---you have to sign up to participate in potentia in just those adventures. if you interpret this at a remove, the message is: in this land of "freedom" that is the american empire, it does not really matter what you say, what you know, what you think--you are still just a body which is wholly expendible in the interest of profits flows. it is particularly important that this bit of Instruction as to the nasty underpinning of this place where we all wander about talking in glowing terms about how lovely lovely and free we are be handed down as you try to go to university, dont you think? well but it is a law and because it is a law you must submit and this is how american exercise intellectual freedom through a virtuosity in rationalizing submission. this is what we are. so at this point, if you want the loans, you have to sign up to be magically transformed into cannonfodder at the appropriate moment. because this is real, it is rational. a fine instance of intellectual freedom american style, that. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite