And Now the Race Begins...

The Sands of Time are running faster and faster in the hourglass of empire. First posts have become last posts, choices have become destinies, unplanned entrances have become untoward exit strategies. Who has better teeth / radical blood or the stone of repression. Karl Kraus wrote long ago about how every screaming headline portended doom. Now every twitter feed radiates catastrophe. The forces of destruction are being unleashed on the people least prepared for it: the Americans, former beneficiaries of empire, but now with nothing to show for it but unpayable debts, shrinking real wages and a predatory national (in)security state which is about to turn its full repressive force on... itself. Welcome to game-show fascism, where every contestant is a loser. You're fired, America -- you've all been fired.