Dear George,
How beautiful it is as the pieces fall into place and the corporist state slowly becomes a living, breathing reality. Everyday, the average citizen finds another burden of decision-making lifted from his shoulders, and discovers that it is far better to be wrapped in the security blanket of certainty than the torn t-shirt of uncertainty that is all freedom has to offer.
Of the many threads that make up this blanket, none is more important than the barbarization of society. I am not talking about the barbarity in which neighbor guts neighbor; I am talking about a virtual barbarity than diverts and distracts.
The truth is that the security blanket is boring as hell and leads to a life of numbed routine. However, this is good. We need a bored proletariat leading lives so lacking in stimulation that the only place to find it is in video games that celebrate wholesale slaughter and the gore-drenched screens of the multiplex. What we are after is the civilized barbarism that desensitizes the masses to the real barbarity that is so necessary for the maintenance of empire and the successful execution of the Global War on Terror.
From a virtual barbarism, it is but a short step to a virtualized life as the world is reduced to the movement of electronic impulses and reality is nothing more than the reactive contortions of the ego. The strong corporatist state requires a withdrawal into self and the reduction of life to a hermetically sealed world of consumption made livable by the occasional emersion in virtual barbarism.
Never let the public forget that the market rules, even though it was leveled decades ago to be replaced by a shinny corporate tower.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
8:59:58 PM 
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