“nobody ever rioted for austerity” [George Monbiot, Heat.]
But have nots have rioted against haves (at world political summits) so ostensibly that is their object.
Global warming is the ultimate postmodernist thing.
It is not – seemingly – a thing but a dilemma: an – ‘is it or isn’t it a thing?’ – thing. “It is a thing” – “But no it’s ectoplasm yet.”
It has become the play-thing of advertising (see Monbiot’s chapter ‘The Denial Industry’). Adverts dictate the ‘reality’.
There is no solution. I once read an interview with William Boroughs in which he asserted that action was useless in the attempt to change any of this. That politics is like the weather. That the decline of the Roman Empire couldn’t be avoided. Just as the decline of the American Empire cannot be. One way or another it is going to happen. Like the weather. One way or another it is going to come about – true enough, I admit sadly; I would say because of our homelessness and absolute incapacity to admit this.
Tags: Heat, Homelessness, Postmodernism
