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Permanent Panic Is Instant (Conspiracy Nation, 10/25/01) -- *Blitzkrieg* ("lightning war") propaganda attacks against the American people have been unleashed in a stunning avalanche. As Angel Luis Lara observed in the Oct. 21, 2001 issue of the Mexico City daily, *La Jornada*, since Sept. 11th, when jets-cum-missiles slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we have been subjected to "panic as the everyday climate, the beginning of a permanent state of emergency." [1] Our protection against the everyday virtual terror is the cabinet- level Office of Homeland Security, instantaneously born. Like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), originally created as a central coordinator of intelligence, Homeland's job now appears to be "coordinator of homeland intelligence." Other instantaneous births are a huge bailout of the airline industry, a "global" war (i.e. a world war), and severe limitations on the Jimmy Carter-era Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA). Attorney General John Ashcroft has issued "a new statement of policy that encourages federal agencies to 'resist Freedom Of Information Act requests, whenever they have legal grounds to do so.'" [2] The American shopper is acknowledged as the last prop sustaining the 1990s New Bubble economy. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has been frantically lowering the rent on money this past year, and the U.S. government is pouring liquidity into consumers' pockets with hurried economic measures. Again, as with the declaration of global war and the Fatherland CIA, the theme is instancy born from panic. The word "panic" has financial connotations. In the 1800s, recurring collapses of U.S. economic bubbles were referred to as "panics." Not as well known as the "shopper bulwark" sustaining the New Economy is the inflated real estate bubble which gave consumers a false sense of wealth. That false sense of wealth facilitated the 1990s shopping boom, with especially stocks as the preferred consumption item. The real estate boom, in turn, was carried on the backs of the homeless. To increase housing prices, demand had to be accelerated. Demand for housing was accelerated by limited supply, which brought "collateral damage" in the form of homeless persons. Combating the trend was Jimmy Carter's "Habitat for Humanity," unfortunately a Don Quixote tilting at windmills. The instant moment of panic arrived on September 11, 2001. The instant is permanent, "permanent panic," as Angel Luis Lara wrote. A point has no dimension and does not phenomenally exist (but without infinite points there can be no line.) Noumenally, though, the point exists. Notwithstanding ephemera, such as Homeland Security, the underlying panic is financial. Like the little Dutch boy with his finger stuck in the dam, Homeland Security believes it can save Holland. [1] "La distincion imposible en la logica del Imperio" ("Impossible distinctions in the logic of Empire") by Angel Luis Lara. La Jornada, 10/21/01. [2] "Beware of Sunshine Patriots," by Steve |
