Quote Originally Posted by shotgunfingers View Post
Imagine someone with dissociative identity disorder.. where every identity is violently struggling for control.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Left and right have never been more fused... both now consume exactly the same things but one side spins it as positive, the other negative. It's almost a parody... debate is just one side stating what the other believes in. Completely absent on both sides is the ability to resist (in the basic sense of refusing to be drawn in the spectacle). Both the left and the right want to believe in the reality of this great struggle over society, but both are just being played by the ruling class (which is really just the government, if we formally recognized all the relevant institutions), which just gets whatever it wants.

It's hard to say for sure whether anyone will step up and do something, but I think failed state status is assured at this point. (。-ω-)ﾉ