The recent attacks can hardly any longer be termed ''recent''. They are too frequent.
Politicians themselves have become targets for supposedly nihilistic violence. But is this violence nihilistic?
Mark Ames and Morris Berman indicate that workplace and racialist/identity-driven violence are on the increase. Dramatically since the 1980s when Reagan was elected.
As incomes fall, automation intensifies and parliaments hollow into nothing, perhaps we are seeing an inchoate rage against the system of corporate globalization which has left many physically and economically redundant?
Hi Neil, I am from Maryborough in central Victoria.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Scapegoats and Wittgenstein too please check out these references: the first two are very much about the scapegoat drama.
www.adidaupclose.org/Literature_Theater/scapegoat_intro.html
www.beezone.com/AdiDa/Aletheon/there_is_a_way_EDIT.html
On music
www.adidaupclose.org/music/index.html
A set of references following on from Wittgenstein - which actually begin where Wittgenstein inevitably got stuck
www.beezone.com/whiteandorangeproject/index.html
Essays on politics & the signs of the times. A very sobering assessment of the signs of the times and why something new must emerge
www.dabase.org/not2p1.htm
www.dabase.org/GCF.htm
www.beezone.com/news.html
www.beezone.com/da_publications/coopdoub.html
Also
www.beezone.com/da_publications/spacetim.html
http://spiralledlight.wordpress.com