Time Is Running Backward and So Is the Bride

Just so. Now it's worth saying something about the nature of institutions here. Within institutions, you have people seeking to increase their own influence and prestige in the context of the institution to which they belong, and those institutions in turn are part of a larger set of competiting institutions that are in their own no less concrete way trying to increase their influence and prestige relative to each other all within the context of a vast and semihegemonic state trying to maintain its preeminence within a world of competeing state and non-state entitites who are themselves filled with the same sorts of competiting institutions which are in turn populated by humans, or shape-shifting reptitlian infiltrators, or what have you. So the FBI is essentially creating make-work for itself, then trumpeting the successful completion of its self-created and self-assigned tasks as a measure of a kind of external success--look! we are catching the terrorists that we are creating. But, you know, on a larger scale, and at the same time, what else is America doing in Afghanistan, say, but catching the terrorists that we are creating. So what if human lives are just getting constantly ground to dust and exploded and vaporized and smashed and bombed and tortured and so on. There is no morality here; there is no authority to whom one appeals this inhumanity. Barack Obama cannot put a stop to it; could not even if he wanted to. I mean, why is the state? Well, obviously, to, uh, protect us from our fundamentally violent and destructive nature. It is necessary to erect a fundamentally violent and destructive bulwark against our own fundamental violence and destruction. We must wage constant war against the forces of constant war. Would you rather live in Somalia?