WILD GREEN GRASSES ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER

Who among us has not dreampt the collapse, the descent of man, a total overcoming of the self. Mass media and popular culture are a testiment to this spirit of Thanatos, though Freud might have been to determinante to point to a singularity without thinking of the dialectical struggle between Eros, Both complement each other, both negate each other, neither life or death. Every moment an eternal reaccurence of overcoming, of becoming, being as becoming....thus a parable spoke to me as Zarathustra. The commodity form of capital has attempted to transfix property, wage labor, and the market [which is totaly seperatable from the process of capitalist appropriation. It is interesting to note when people talk of the 'universality' of the market, they speek as if a new god a priori came speaking to them, as if all other relations of distribution were epiphenomena in human history. The market according to these thologans, is the grand narrative that controls human destiny and will lead to liberation!! Behold, we have the equivelancy of all temporal and spacial relations in one absolute system of representation. Behold, ignore the market as an emergent facet of Merchantilism, of state coersion (how many of those individuals know of the laws enacted in England known as Spernhapland? or the great Enclosement laws? NEVER MIND THAT! NEVER MIND FRANSICO PIZARRO AND THE FOREBARES OF SO CALLED 'PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION')]. To deny this totality, to deny this structure that claims to be a freely associating structure, but ignores its own imminent dislocation of any concept of freedom. The mechanism will move to commoditize everything... Land, Labor, Power, Air, Water, Grass. All of these being reified.. The state is a signifier for a null placement, it signifies a ghost, a pact made with the blood of thousands gone. It represents the incognate singularity of being, it resists overcoming, it is what Fredrich once called the great terrancula, a 'preacher of death', stale and decreped. Must we live on with this? Everywhere we feel that it can move on, that the conjectures are all around us, thus we dream, we dance, we play, we invision the self implosion of the hegemony. To will, to affirm this implosion is only the begining, to wipe the stale mold with the winds of change. Associate my friends! For to become is to be interpellated, to be in a dialogical position to engage in praxis of overcoming. The meaning of the overman in light of this has lost all fascist undertones, for those fascists wish to affirm the overman as the opposition of the eternal overcoming, the eternal becoming. Eternity....Neither the past, nor present, nor future.... a conjectural herumenatics....How little do those who speak the term realize its full potentiality.

THE WILD GREEN GRASS:

'Miyazaki betrayed a profound dissatisfaction with modern life. He complained, “Everything is so thin and shallow and fake.” He lamented the fact that children had become disconnected from nature, and fulminated about the deadening impact of video games on the imagination. Only half in jest, he said that he was hoping for the day when “developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer, and wild grasses take over.” And the conversation grew only darker from there. A man disappointed, even infuriated, by the ugliness surrounding him, Miyazaki is devoted to making whatever he can control—a museum, each frame of a film—as gorgeous as it can be."

“I talked to an expert on this recently, and I said, ‘Tell me the truth.’ He said with mass consumption continuing as it is we will have less than fifty years. Then it will all be like Venice. I think maybe less, more like forty. I’m hoping I’ll live another thirty years. I want to see the sea rise over Tokyo and the NTV tower become an island. I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high-rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.”'

Source: http://www.japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=563