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gucci--in a way i agree with you (bush's credibility is not even a ghost) but for me that doesn't extend to my assessment of what's happening--i think it's bigger than you do both in terms of causes and consequences--what's more, i think that it is a good and necessary thing that neoliberalism burn, and it seems that this is the way it's to happen. so when i say "crisis" i don't mean it in the sense of PANIC NOW, but more in the sense that i think we're watching an ideologically framed group of people trying to address a situation that's way beyond the abilities of that ideology to frame coherently, and as they twist in the wind trying to figure out what to do, the political crisis--which is what this really is, to my mind---continues to get deeper. trick is that there's no way to measure a political crisis--it kinda is as it appears to be, and how it appears is a sum of what is said about it. not that much different from the economy, when you strip away the illusions of science provided by equations and the "proofs" of economists.
crisis is part of how capitalism works--large-scale crisis is part of how neoliberalism has exported itself to the south over the past 20 years or so--what's different here is what i said before.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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