The Cause for Disgust.

The previous post makes the point that the celebration American's engage in over Bin Laden's death is not the result of their personal lust for vengeance. True, some went through great emotional tragedy, but without the war effort, an appendage of the American nation-state,  their lives would have carried on as the tragedy falls into their past. Of course they remember, but it does not consume their being as it did on the morning of 9/11. For people to support a sustained war effort with ambiguous ends, the U.S. controllers had to provide rationality for their outrage in the face of this attack, and the revenge they vowed to their enemies in response to their losses, which are at once material and symbolic destruction, death and annihilation of property but also a threat towards the institution. If the nation-state were an embodied being, then Bin Laden had just cut off a thumb or a toe.

So the people are duped into a system of belief, that the war effort is really the enactment of their desire for vengeance, against the enemy of justice, the oppressor. But this too is representation. Most people only see the war in varied forms of media coverage, which reflects not the total reality of the war scenario but a popular point of view. The controllers of the nation-state reserve the power to destroy life without consequence, since their collective being retires from the justice system which assigns consequences to individual actions. The whole of the nation-state cannot be put to trial because no greater power can oppose it, and no single individual is wholly accountable for its expressions of power. The expression of this power is in the movements of war, and though select demographics of the American public sacrifice themselves for the war, they do it not for themselves but for an image, their "country". The rhetoric of the nation-state deceives them, makes them believe they are acting for themselves when they really act as a function of the superstructure in its expression of power. The movement of war, in the end, is still made by the nation-state, at the will of its controllers. The same deception occurs in mass society; the images people are given of the tragedy, the war effort, and now of the satisfaction of the vengeance of the nation-state, become their experience, their lives. The will of the nation-state is transmitted to the masses in these images, acting as a veil that conceals their reality. They see the images of war behind glowing screens and think "my God, we are at war!", but they forget that for them this is clearly false. The same occurs at the end of the war when they celebrate victory. But the meaning of this motion is not theirs, nor are they free to choose it by any means. They are absorbed in the expression of the nation-states power, flowing along with its operations in making the movements of war. In celebrating the blood debt paid to the nation-state, they celebrate the manifestation of tyranny which emerges and dominates through its actions. Not only does it win the war overseas, but domestically as well, in dominating the perceptions of those it rules over. To celebrate state executions is a celebration of tyranny, and the celebration of tyranny is the denial of one's life. More specifically it is the denial of the interest one has, or the responsibility for what happens in their life. Strangely enough, to celebrate death in this sense cannot be a celebration of death, since it is ultimately a celebration that escapes from the reality of one's life (which entails death). In the celebration of tyranny which our deceivers dupe us into, our lives become lost though we are not dead. This artificial and stagnant mode of existence is repulsive, and there is no occasion for celebration to be found. It is absurd to think that people celebrate in this sort of existence, and it is this absurdity which causes disgust. In conclusion, let life and death be your cause for celebration, for if either is resigned nothing is left.