Short, but bitter.
You Say Hegemony, I Say Homogeny
The next
despotic threat will not come from a country: North Korea, China, Kazakhstan,
it’ll come from a corporation, an organisation or multinational, conglomeration
of all conglomerations, king of all kings, chief of all chiefs, brand of all
brands. It’ll come when the bookstore owns the music store and the café runs
the garage. When every bakery sells birthday cards and every gym sells champagne.
When every lamppost beams Wi-Fi, every toilet stall broadcasts betting odds,
every metallic surface transmits and receives a signal. When the police are run
by the supermarket, the fire service by the arms industry, ambulances by the
local cab firm, the Automobile Association by Alcoholic Anonymous, when every
sports team becomes interchangeable and the bank is the state and the state is
the bank. When the only fish left in the ocean is one big bloated fucker, when
there is nowhere else you can go, then you’ll know.
Capitalism,
just a slower acting form of communism, running anti-clockwise and anti-social,
differing only in the corporate ownership of the state rather state ownership
of the corporation, but with power nonetheless concentrated at the top,
inaccessible to most.
Can you feel
it drawing closer?
Welcome to
your homogeny. Please mind your head.
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