The Leader broke out hotly: “Not extremist, madam, activist, religious activist. It is in your country also, madam, this word, no? And service is part of the creed of your religion also, which is where it should be, in the west, for you? So for us, this activism is attempt to pur-r-ge great country of medicines that do not work for our diseases — Islam, Christianity — that our conquerors injected in us, no? Like pai-san. These pai-san religions worked through our system and produced slums, poor people and disease, you see? We don’t mind our Christian brothers, but Christian religion is bad thing for this part of the world, madam. And also Islam because it is system, not true faith. But Hinduism, see, it even reflects our population. Thirty-three crores of gods and goddesses! What? Glorious, no madam? Yes, are you taking all this down alright? Don’t make any mistakes and send me your essay when it comes out; one of my staff will correct it.”
In May-June 2025, the arch necropolitician of the twenty-first century, the very trumpery Trumperoo of the United States of America, took credit for brokering an Indo-Pak peace, on the heels of hostilities triggered by an incident in Occupied Kashmir (yes, occupied, by India, against Kashmiri popular will)
This is the new norm, the norm of global fascism. This will get worse because of elected political leaders selling out their electorates to enrich themselves and other already unbelievably rich oligarchs. This is what Walter Benjamin called the aestheticization of politics, with its flip side, the politicization of aesthetics, so consummately applied in Germany in the 1930s-40s.
“a vignette reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s surreal eco-hostility drama The Birds (1963), the war between birds and humans”
The Leader broke out hotly: “Not extremist, madam, activist, religious activist. It is in your country also, madam, this word, no? And service is part of the creed of your religion also, which is where it should be, in the west, for you? So for us, this activism is attempt to pur-r-ge great country of medicines that do not work for our diseases — Islam, Christianity — that our conquerors injected in us, no? Like pai-san. These pai-san religions worked through our system and produced slums, poor people and disease, you see? We don’t mind our Christian brothers, but Christian religion is bad thing for this part of the world, madam. And also Islam because it is system, not true faith. But Hinduism, see, it even reflects our population. Thirty-three crores of gods and goddesses! What? Glorious, no madam? Yes, are you taking all this down alright? Don’t make any mistakes and send me your essay when it comes out; one of my staff will correct it.”
In May-June 2025, the arch necropolitician of the twenty-first century, the very trumpery Trumperoo of the United States of America, took credit for brokering an Indo-Pak peace, on the heels of hostilities triggered by an incident in Occupied Kashmir (yes, occupied, by India, against Kashmiri popular will)
Not heard of the anti-immigrant, anti-‘outsider,’ far-right rally and violence in London recently, have you?
This is the new norm, the norm of global fascism. This will get worse because of elected political leaders selling out their electorates to enrich themselves and other already unbelievably rich oligarchs. This is what Walter Benjamin called the aestheticization of politics, with its flip side, the politicization of aesthetics, so consummately applied in Germany in the 1930s-40s.
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