<nettime> Mineshaft toilet signage

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

The American left convulsively loathes the current president of the US. 
A pathetic disclaimer became popular: whatever the topic is, one must 
mention that POTUS is horrible ("some of my friends are black".) The 
reason is strictly commercial: he is saying the unsayble, serving the 
unpackaged product, thus robbing the left of its principal merchandise: 
cellophane that wraps the excrement.

In the latest example, a client state apparently butchered an 
inconvenient turncoat, and POTUS said it's not a big deal (which is 
accurate, in the sense it's customary modus operandi of self-respecting 
states ... except that this particular one was likely a filmed false 
flag op to make the hapless sheik cough up $450B.) Still, a human being 
was killed by the visiting team, filéd and shipped out. Instead of 
persistent denials (Abu Omar, anyone?) we got: no big deal. That was a 
tectonic shift, the new normal. But the left didn't react. The public 
acknowledgment of routine nature of consular meat packing is outside the 
discourse. Even the reflexively Godwinian reactions (the level of left's 
dissociation can be plotted over time with frequency of use of words 
"nazi", "fascist" and such) were absent this time.

One could ask why would left concern itself with the criminal behavior 
of principal players? The answer is simple: when the left stops paying 
attention to emanations of the force monopolies, it's out of the 
business of being left.

While speechless at the obvious, the left loudly believes that the 
current POTUS was elected because the nation went insane, psychotic, 
brainwashed, or simply CRISPR-ed into becoming genetically nazi, still 
living in the times when Kabuki-style discourse was the thing. Echoes of 
that drivel are bouncing around us: essays wading over the chicken 
entrails of the past, terabytes stored, presented and argued. The fight 
is confined to twice-removed ideological spaces, regarding increasing 
numbers of natural, fake or post-op vaginas in places that matter as a 
victory. It occupies the space and makes zero difference.

Maybe the identity politics was left's Doomsday Machine. Its fallout is 
the only observable achievement.

Welcome to the post-cellophane world. Get a shovel.

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