Again, we who have too much have been shamed by those who have next to nothing. A people, we have been told for decades, who "cannot handle" self-reliance and liberty have shown us once more and yet again that in the face of real and actual repressive violence, against the interests of their own states, against the military interest of the American imperium which funds their repressive governments, against the mediation and degradation of global capital, with a hunger that indicts us for the fat of the land we wear beneath our dress, they have the quality and caliber of spirit and courage to resist in the flesh that which we can barely consume in image.
And any one of us who cannot be overcome by these facts, and laid low in the right judgment of self, deserves to bear alone the full onus of the great dying we have inflicted upon the world. A world order of death we do not resist. A world order we make, in our complacency and subservience.
A world fought, yet again, by our victims - and against the weight of an order which struggles to abandon them, to make permanent their obsolescence, to starve them into submission before it bombs them into oblivion, they have risen up. While we wait, the lot of us, to watch the images of their defeat, before we return to our sovereign, isolated petty kingdoms of excess and gluttony.
While we no longer even know how to ask, "What is to be done?..."
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