We Don't Live In A Capitalist Totality.

Meanwhile, The U.s. Debt Remains, As It Has Been Since 1790, A War Debt; The United States Continues To Spend More On Its Military Than Do All Other Nations On Earth Put Together, And Military Expenditures Are Not Only The Basis Of The Government's Industrial Policy; They Also Take Up Such A Huge Proportion Of The Budget That By Many Estimations, Were It Not For Them, The United States Would Not Run A Deficit At All.

The Working Poor Are The People Suffering Out Subprime Mortgages And Fatal Loans And More And More Of Our Money - You Know, Capitalism Is Operated By Extracting Money, Not So Much Directly Being Paid.

It Affects Every Aspect Of Our Lives, Is Often Said To Be The Root Of All Evil, And The Analysis Of The World That It Makes Possible - What We Call 'the Economy' - Is So Important To Us That Economists Have Become The High Priests Of Our Society. Yet, Oddly, There Is Absolutely No Consensus Among Economists About What Money Really Is.

But In The Years Since The Neoliberal Project Really Has Been Stripped Down To What Was Always Its Essence: Not An Economic Project At All, But A Political Project, Designed To Devastate The Imagination, And Willing - With It's Cumbersome Securitization And Insane Military Projects - To Destroy The Capitalist Order Itself If That's What It Took To Make It Seem Inevitable.

The Question We Should Be Asking Is Not Why People Are Sometimes Cruel, Or Even Why A Few People Are Usually Cruel (all Evidence Suggests True Sadists Are An Extremely Small Proportion Of The Population Overall), But How We Have Come To Create Institutions That Encourage Such Behavior And That Suggest Cruel People Are In Some Ways Admirable-or At Least As Deserving Of Sympathy As Those They Push Around.