A very interesting article is in the May issue of The Nation. Columnist, Naomi Klein writes about how the wars Bush wages create new frontiers for capitalism in a way that’s not unlike the result of some recent natural disasters.
“Few ideologues can resist the allure of a blank slate–that was colonialism’s seductive promise: “discovering” wide-open new lands where utopia seemed possible. But colonialism is dead, or so we are told; there are no new places to discover, no terra nullius (there never was), no more blank pages on which, as Mao once said, “the newest and most beautiful words can be written.” There is, however, plenty of destruction–countries smashed to rubble, whether by so-called Acts of God or by Acts of Bush (on orders from God). And where there is destruction there is reconstruction, a chance to grab hold of “the terrible barrenness,” as a UN official recently described the devastation in Aceh, and fill it with the most perfect, beautiful plans.”
But… Wombat got it immediately! Haven’t you ever nicked yerself shaving, then slapped on the aftershave (or cologne)? Talk about natural disasters and the burning and the running around going “aaaargh! ooooogh! Yaaaaagh! Sunnuvva… waaa!”
