Sublime

The forms of control accompanying the rise of neoliberalism in the 1990s were more invasive in their subjective effects and in their devastation of shared and collectively supported relations.

And they are instantiated as a distributed processing system on human beings. They don’t particularly care about human beings. Their motives are inscrutable, to the extent that they have any, except that they’d like to get bigger. They’ve run on people. They’re implemented on people. But they are not people. They are not persons in any meaningful s

Any questioning or discrediting of what is currently the most efficient means of producing acquiescence and docility, of promoting self-interest as the raison d’être of all social activity, is rigorously marginalized.

Empire dictates its laws and maintains the peace according to a model of postmodern right and postmodern law,

La démocratie est prise sous un feu croisé : par le haut avec la possible apparition d’un despote ; par le bas en raison de la tyrannie de l’opinion publique et du développement de l’individualisme au détriment du bien commun.