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the only way in which i agree with the political talking head class is that we are now beyond that kind of thinking.
like it or not, the arbitrary investments of belief that underpin the circulations of capital are in serious trouble---there is no moral economy that does not sit atop the same kind of thing.
but there's a side of me that agrees with you, cyn----fuck them, let em burn---but not for the same reasons as you. and then there's the other side of me that thinks this is way way past the point where that is really an option and since we all live here too, we kinda have to assume that Somone can do Something to shore up the financial system in general so that the change that's really needed can get thought out and implemented.
then there's this third side that thinks the only honorable thing for the elected government in power to do now, if they cannot do something, is to resign. all of them. we are fucked, we give up, push up the elections and swear in a new government.
at least that way, the opposition that's been taking shape not just to these incoherent bailouts, but to the entire political order encapsulated in the person of george w bush, would mean something.
but most of me thinks this is kinda funny. it's funny because the paralysis of thinking has been inflicted on so many places for so long in the form of artificial crises and imf bailouts, forced privatization and dumping of american agricultural overproduction in the name of free trade--it's funny to see the same shit happening here. so when i think fuck em, let em all burn, i am really not saying the same thing as you. but i agree with the sentiment. partly.
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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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