A better world -- again, not perfect, by no means perfect, but much better --
is entirely possible. We could easily dismantle the empire --
carefully, safely, with deliberation -- over the next ten years. It is
a reasonable, moderate, serious option. It would not require violent
revolution or vast social upheaval. But our elites do not want this.
They can no longer fathom life without the exercise -- and worship --
of unrestricted power that empire entails. They will not accept -- or
even contemplate -- any alternative to it.
And thus every option and policy we are offered -- whether from
right-wing Republicans or "progressive" Democrats, or from "serious"
news analysts on "serious" papers -- must fall within these
pathetically cramped, constricted mental horizons. Empire -- the
imposition of dominion by violence and threat of violence, and the
financial and moral corruption this breeds, the malevolent example it
sets at every level of society -- is the canker in the body politic.
Until it is dealt with, there will be no healing, no hope, no change --
just more degradation and disaster all down the line.Next Page 1 | 2
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Chris Floyd is an American journalist. His work has appeared in print and online in venues all over the world, including The Nation, Counterpunch, Columbia Journalism Review, the Christian Science Monitor, Il Manifesto, the Moscow Times and many (more...)
