April 29, 2013     Permalink Tweet: A post-history strip tease: click here Submitted by paulvcassidy

OpedNews Pepe Escobar provides an insightful and indept critique of  what Flemish philosopher and art historian Lieven De Cauter , in his book Entropic Empire, called "the Mad Max phase of globalization." 

"Casino capitalism -- aka turbocharged neoliberalism -- is ruthlessly destroying the last vestiges of the welfare state and the egalitarian consensus in the industrialized West, possibly with the odd Scandinavian exception. It has established a "New Normal" consensus, intruding into private lives, dominating the political debate and institutionalizing for good the marketization of life itself -- the final act of fierce corporate exploitation of natural resources, land and cheap labor. 

Integration, socialization and multiculturalism are being corroded by disintegration, segregation, and widespread de -socialization -- a direct consequence of the David Harvey-coined notion of "dis-accumulation" (society devouring its own)".

And on that last line the global culture of abortion, now all but taken for granted, provides a very stark proof of a society which is practically speaking 'devouring it's own', then wondering whether the human waste might not be legitimately exploited as a biological resource.