"complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable. that the public good is is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority." federalist X (madison ) _______________________________"this maintenance of the legal basis aims at asserting minority interest as if they were the predominant interests...it aims at retaining legislators who are concerned only with their particular interests; it seeks to misuse political power in order forcibly to place the interests of a minority above the interests of the majority." karl marx from his defense speech at his 1849 trial _____________________________________ sixty-one years later and charlie provides insight into the thinking of the vanguard of the political operatives who were struggling to create a "more perfect union" because the sort of "public and personal liberty" that the jeffersoinian declaration of independence had brought into being was spawning movements that were inimical to the interests of the elite and were in serious danger of exposing those interests as anything but "predominant" in the new republic...shay's rebellion displeased madison while it scared the living shit out of hamilton and moved him into an even more reactionary stance that even abigail adams found distasteful...have a leisurely but close perusal of the federalist papers and you will find hamilton is the only one of the three authors who cites shay's rebellion by name...the others simply referred to it euphemistically as something like "the recent unpleasantness in massachucetts"...as if calling it by its popular ( and now historical ) name would lend credence to the idea that the new hegemons' interests might not be in the best interest of the public at large ( that "overbearing majority"...in 1787 madison is already putting paid to the concept of majority rule...jefferson's vision snuffed out in the cradle...much like lennin croaked it in russia in 1917...hegemons are cut from the same cloth historically speaking )...the vanguard never has much use for "the herd"...an unwashed rabble with barely a brain amongst them...only useful fools and a vast pool of consumers...readily mislead and manipulated by desire and emotional appeals...they are missing a central point i think but i am not going to try to enlighten them...the center has had a fair run since 1789...it's gone from a collection of imperial wannbes wearing their desires on their sleeves by garnishing the capitol with neo-classical kitsch architecture to an actual imperial machine that has taken what it wanted since 1945...but entropy is catching up to it...as the system becomes more and more complex to try to deflect and deter real and perceived threats ( how much money does the nsa really cost? what's the real budget..come on...you guys read this blog...give us a ballpark figure we can run with ) the law of diminishing returns is kicking in..pretty soon all that complexity is going to simply cost too much and coercive efforts to collect ever rising taxes are going to have the periphery looking for a better deal...eventual collapse into a simpler form of extortion is fairly inevitable..the cascade failure will see to that...politics in this country have grown so unbearably rank and out of touch with reality ( someone should seriously whack the tea party over their collective heads to get their limited attention and try to explain as simply as possible that you cannot have empire and small government...one or the other morons...both are impossible ) that it is not really possible to take it seriously...it's a circus and the menagerie in whoretown is only going to get more out of control..it can be entertaining at times but as a steady diet it's a lot like having yahoo as your home page...to damned busy...no room for quiet thought...which may be what they want...but who cares what they want? the object is to expose the enter as the irrelevancy it is and get to work on building a culture and a community that will help us crawl out form under the rubble of the late republic's collapse and help one another...that is as inimical to the interests of the elite as you can get.
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