01 4 / 2008

Ultimately

An economic system that is based on desire, a political system that’s based on fear, and sociological disciplines devoted to promoting sublimation and denial? What’s not to like? The propagator is also the payload — so elegant! Too elegant, in fact, for human invention.

It is nothing more than the blueprint in our physiology projected proudly into macrocosm. In our own image.

No, the question is not whether our drunk uncle will stop drinking before he runs out of money, the question is: will he stop drinking after?