The Disintegration Loop and the End of Empire

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    The Disintegration Loop and the End of Empire

    New York Artist William Basinski was working on a music composition project that require some old 1980s ambient music recordings on magnetic tape be transferred over to digital a format. However, the old recordings had deteriorated and the ferrite on the plastic tape began to fall off causing distortion. Basinski continued to run the old tapes continuously until they completely deteriorated producing more, and more distortion that was further processed with special sound effects.

    When Basinski completed the project, he sat on the roof of his apartment building in Brooklyn with some friends listening to the finished project and that is when the World Trade Center towers collapsed—it was September 11, 2001.

    Democracy is an inherently weak form of government because the rules of Democracies are not written down—they cannot be written down except in the hearts of human beings.

    Democracy is a form of government that requires shared beliefs of its citizens in the value of human beings, consent of the citizenry, openness, fairness, empathy, purpose (telos) and most importantly—Truth (aletheia). One cannot be free without Truth; without the belief that an intelligent life is better than an ignorant life; that a free life is better than a life of unending grinding toil in poverty.

    Our imperfect Democracy has been the target of very sophisticated systematic sabotage, exploitation, and authoritarianism. It is very easy for a powerful secretive political faction with almost infinite resources to seize up, or even destroy a democratic society.

    American Democracy has been deteriorating for may decades, and the CIA blowback 9/11 attack just accelerated a process that was already very far along. Democracy collapsed along side the World Trade Center buildings with even greater deadliness, but this spiritual and moral collapse of democracy in American was executed by a different group of terrorists than the former business partners of the Bush Dynasty.

    The good news of the Mafioso-fascist Trump Administration is it symbolizes the end of the American Empire--and it just cannot come fast enough.
     
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    And I was right on Sep 19, 2018. I am tired of this fascist American rot.
     

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