Only game in town right Winner?

In a post-Nausea civilization active imagination saves all mankind

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We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are born the return begins, at once the setting forth and the coming back; we die in every moment. Because of this many have cried out: The goal of life is death! But as soon as we are born we begin the struggle to create, to compose, to turn matter into life; we are born in every moment. Because of this many have cried out: The goal of ephemeral life is immortality! In the temporary living organism these two streams collide: (a) the ascent toward composition, toward life, toward immortality; (b) the descent toward decomposition, toward matter, toward death. [...] But both opposing forces are holy. It is our duty, therefore, to grasp that vision which can embrace and harmonize these two enormous, timeless, and indestructible forces, and with this vision to modulate our thinking and our action. (Kazantzakis 1960)

Old wine, new bottle, the Borg won. Bow down to NULL. Bobby will save us! From what? Ourselves. Yes friends I have second sight and the putative hero El Kennedy elected and installed by Neo Liberalism as the rightful Tirant Lo Blanc will due to budget cuts for Defense and Welfare proclaim himself Tirant.

Acclaim for the next FDR will resound to the skies. People will hug each other and shout horray we are free from all RESPONSIBILITY AT LONG LAST! With beaming smiles strangers bump shopping carts and grin, “No more elections!”

“People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind — it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.”

― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

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