Friday, April 13, 2007

Dear George,   The foundation of America’s greatness is an elite group of intellectuals who are incapable of critical thought.  The trouble with in-depth thinkers is that they are too wrapped up in the human condition and this is what makes them dangerous. The Corporatist State requires abstractions divorced from reality, free-floating ideas that drift along on thermals emanating from the hot air of hubris.    The abstractions that serve the State are those that dehumanize, that move in the ethereal world of fantasy.  The abstract qua abstract rises above life’s stench; it reduces the complex to the simplistic; it sanitizes that which is coated with life’s filth; it drowns out the cries of the dying and the maimed.    The shining light of this coterie of brilliantly brain-dead intellectuals is Paul Wolfowitz.  He is a man who knows how to separate intellect from wisdom.  Wolfowitz’s specialty is creating a simplistic abstraction and believing that reality will adjust itself to fit the abstraction.  Because he believed that the Iraqi people would great us as liberators, he was convinced they would.  Because he believed that taking out Sadam would bring democracy to the Middle East, he was convinced it would.  Now, as head of the World Bank, he believes that the main cause of third-world poverty is corruption, so he wants to cut funding and debt relief to corrupt governments, thus plunging their people further into poverty.[1]   The value of men like Wolfowitz is that they are always wrong. This requires even more abstractions, which create even more chaos and confusion, and, as the CEO of Halliburton will tell you, there’s a profit to be made out of chaos and confusion.   The brilliance of the Neocon intellectuals is that they are able to schematize a life force that is, by its very nature, complex and contradictory, and believe that by adjusting the schematic they can adjust life.  They’re like the man with a broken TV who gets a schematic diagram of the set and is convinced that by drawing a line on the schematic from point A to point B he will repair the set.    Men like Wolfowitz have made us what we are today.   Your admirer, Belacqua Jones     [1] I was stoned when I heard this on the radio, so I don’t know what the fuck the source was.  BJ 5:12:34 AM    comment []

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