Dept. of Speak, Brother, Speak

When someone says that the drug war is a failure because instead of stopping drug use, it destabilizes narco-producing regions of the world, brutalizes the underclass, perpetuates inequality, and foments the expansion of the police-prison state, then that person has mistaken a slogan for a product. When someone muses that our "strategy" in Iraq or Afghanistan is a failure because it is not producing "a durable, non-violent resolution to . . . political conflicts", then that person is a fool. And when someone says that late, post-industrial capitalism fails to "bring together willing buyers with willing sellers in order to produce value," then I wonder in what idealized world of pure form and meaning has this man been living, because obviously, if you consider the current American economy and the global system in which it is embedded, the production of "value" is incidental to the continued concentration of material wealth and political influence. That is the point. It isn't a failure of the system. It is the system.

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Cui bono, motherfuckers?

-IOZ

That last line should be the motto and first question of any serious seeker after political or economic truth.

this is awesome.

cheers to the agitator for laying it out so clearly. everybody oughtta leave michael phelps the fuck alone. if brother wants to smoke a little pot on his own time, then that oughtta be his business and not ours.

enough with this demonizing the demon weed. it's so much less harmful than all kinds of legal shit, including most of the pharmaceutical drugs america's all heffed-up on, and the current conventional wisdom is bullshit, a fucking snow job perpetrated by harry anslinger because he was in bed with dupont, who wanted to make nylon rope, but couldn't break into the market, because hemp had a lock on that shit.

ps: what ioz said.