The reflective observer

The 20th century was the century of the self, unprecendented in world history. I think it's all over now and we have entered Phase "B." I could only pass from phase A to phase B - from belligerent Bush man to conspiracy-monger - after I enlisted in the U.S. military and was transferred out and transformed back into a civilian. I almost don't want to share more secrets with you, since you are always so short with me, but it must be observed that when the individual has won his freedom from power, from a childhood without fear of repression to a rhizomatic adulthood - that's when the game ends. The offerings of the future, including a cash-less social economy liberated from the fractured currencies of an Oedipal society, a system of free-moving political actors and, most importantly, the means of production in the hands of the people - all these new creations pose a danger to systems threatened by this anarchic flow of capital.