Dear George,
When your back is against the wall, when night is at its nadir, when everything you touch turns to shit, when your approval ratings are single digit, and when your impeachment measure is up for a vote, remember one thing: the problem does not exist than can’t be solved by self-destruction. This is why the Supreme Court made the corporation a person. The same rule applies to them as well.
That is the beauty of living in a free democratic Corporatist State mired in a slough of capital. Capital has a built-in self-destruct mechanism that will solve all the injustices it has created. The fact that this will take the rest of humanity with it is a minor detail. At the end of the day, the just society is a desert.
The mechanism of self-destruction is the fetish of unbridled growth. Growth sucks up resources and continues to deplete them at a rate faster than any conservation efforts can preserve them. An ever-rising GDP eternally pollutes fire, water, air and earth.
Corporatists believe that the only alternative to growth is death, so they celebrate death by celebrating growth because the truth is that growth inscribes an arc with an ascent, apogee and descent. As growth slides over the apogee, it transitions from beneficial to destructive. Quaffing a shot of scotch mellows; chugging a bottle of scotch kills. In spite of this, our Corporatists keep on chugging.
Even as it is destroying the earth, growth is an efficient system of keeping the proles in line. As one of the Federal Reserve governors put it, “Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope and that makes large income differentials tolerable.” The subtext is that in an environment of suicidal growth, everyone’s ship will come in. Of course, nobody bothers to point out that the ship is sitting at the bottom of the sea with a gaping hole in its hull, and the rich have all the lifeboats.
The proles are kept in place through the democratization of consumption as they dig themselves deeper into a pit of consumer debt. Corporations do the same, but it is called sound business practice. True, it all ends when the bill collector comes knocking at the door, but it is no big deal. Government bails out the corporation and preaches the doctrine of personal responsibility to the proles.
Meanwhile, asthe seas continue to rise it becomes evident that God was bullshitting Noah when he promised no more floods.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
7:03:38 AM 
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