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FAREWELL CONTENT CLASS WARS AND ASS WARS BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME DISSIDENT VOICE

Farewell Content: Class Wars and Ass Wars Bringing It All Back Home!

by Gary Corseri / August 13th, 2011

Farewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars That make ambition virtue!

William Shakespeare, Othello

It would be supererogatory for me to list those areas in which thoughtful Americans feel that collapse is coming.

Anthony Burgess, Is America Falling Apart? 1971

Hard times for the Global Empire: a roasting hot summer of shame in U.S. politics and economics and America s worst military defeat in Afghanistan 38 men in a Chinook shot down, following hard on the heels of our greatest War-on-Terror triumph the assassination of an old guy in Pakistan, MSM-reputed to be, Bin Laden.

We stare at the unraveling mise en scene as at an enveloping blaze caused by a sudden downdraft in a fireplace a blaze we thought contained now a whoosh! rippling over our heads. Yet, if we are honest, we conclude: this collapse has been like a venereal disease with which we ve maintained an uneasy armistice; and now it flares, like a cancerous memory.

Some forty years ago, one of Britain s best modern authors, Anthony Burgess, taught for a while in an America that was napalming and agent-oranging its way through Vietnam; a nation in which racial tensions still threatened to explode into race wars; a nation with the highest murder and incarceration rates in the developed world. Yet, in spite of all its de...[more]