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A good one!

Dear George,



You have many hidden allies in the form of trends, developments and styles that have supported your consolidation of power. Beltway power hacks overlook these because they blend so well into the fabric of the everyday. One I am thinking of is postmodernism. Granted, it is problematic because of its refusal to acknowledge moral imperatives such as greed, exploitation, and violence, which make the Corporatist State possible.



However, there is one postmodernist dictum that has proven to be the key to your power: Be yourself whoever you are today. This dictum allows you to the warrior chieftain you are not. Only a dyed-in-the-wool postmodernist like you could have put on that flight suit and treated the world to your hemorrhoidal strut across the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln.



The strength of postmodernism is its ability to isolate and quarantine the soul, which leaves only the ego to run things. Ego is a superficial hodgepodge of articulated feelings that is pure fiction. Our essence as human beings rests in that great, silent void that is the soul. Since nobody wants to listen to silence, we prefer to chatter away and believe that in our meaningless chatter we have a firm grip on reality.



Isolation of the soul is crucial if the state is to survive. Out of the soul come all of the viruses that weaken the state such as community, altruism, and morality. The firewalls that seal off the soul promote the self-absorption that makes consumers out of citizens and equates happiness with having lots of “stuff”.



Your greatest ally in keeping the soul in isolation is the mental health profession. The only sane response to a culture grounded in the greed and fragmentation of free market theology is despair and anger. Our mental health professionals view these sane responses as treatable conditions and have at their disposal an entire arsenal of medications that numb the senses and turn would-be rebels into a well-adjusted member of society.

In the end, it is all make believe everyone thinks is real. This is why people are so receptive to your make-believe. They are busy spinning their own.

Your admirer,

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