Flowers For Socrates

By ann summers

Truth, even pre-truth, may be more instructive, without privileging the narcissistic self-demolition that drives the hateful yam, because it does lay bare the naked avarice of modern capitalism.

The building of wealth both a class inheritance and from the unredistributed surplus profits also produces a an inequality of value in a fragmented and shock-doctrined economy. The latter exploitation is a problematic one for those attempting to loot social welfare regardless of the nature of taxation necessary to maintain a robust regional/national/international economy.

Giant Gasbag and PoundPence, lead the most open of the id and superego of modern repressive race and religion theories in their rhetorical and policy pronouncements, respectively as real estate huckster and talk-show Governor. Their financial backers and their spoils reveal four years of kleptocracy’s barely constrained opportunism.

And as they didn’t need megaphones, the public sphere is fractured by empowered lone-wolf criminals, whether disrupting airline service, attacking students with knives, or firing tear gas grenades directing at protesters, and all have ethno-national intent of negative dominance.

Bag & Pound are the sin-eaters for their minions, first as Cabinet officers, next as Legislators now drug-test themselves by trickling down their allegiances onto ideological litmus paper; Jeff Flake standing behind his write-in vote for McMullin will be a cautionary tale for the state of AZ ACA funds among other Medicare issues in 2017.