The Divine Richard Nixon; The Divine Michael Portillo; The Divine Rupert
Murdoch; The Divine Bill Gates; The Divine Ayatollah Khomenei; The Divine
Larry Flynt...
I suppose every thug has his simperers and sycophants.
Tant pis pour les victimes, huh?
* * *
So what is it, besides being
pre-empted, that you find yourself
unable to abide?
Pre-emptively
co-opted, to be precise: concocted
or constructed from such stuff
as snuff movies are made of -
I mean suffering and death, which
are real even if the rumoured
entertainment is a risible simulacrum,
translated into the expedient razzle
of pleasure sought and taken.
Real *enough*. Not to rejoice
in nominal resistance, although
it's true there are curtailments I'd pay
to see enacted: still, the sore
point is the amusement said to be
afforded, even there. Yes,
*puritannical*: if you must. There seems
little point in protesting the death-
agonies of man or beast while there remain
those who will laud the "savage spectacle"
as supremely-affecting *jouissance*...
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