Right after I posted that last entry, something was nagging me on my head. A thought surfaced just barely above conciousness and a memory of Hakim Bey's "The Obelisk" comes to mind regarding the current world situation. A quick perusal and here it is:

"The fact is that any map will fit any territory...given sufficient violence. Every ideology is complicit with every other ideology—given enough time (and rope). These complexes are nothing but unreal estate, properties to be stripped of assets, vampirized for imagery, propped up to keep the marks in line, manipulated for profit—but not taken seriously by grown-ups. For the adult of the species there remains nothing but the atomized sell of exchange, and the unlikely consolations of greed and power." - Hakim Bey "The Obelisk"