Can we, the alienated, liberate the world from finance and consumerism?

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2007)

How can we make explicit, visible, the dark side in each one of us that is only aiming at creating mayhem, havoc around us ? How can we use this dark side in the mass of us to make our massive us conquer power over the very few them who already have done it and who control society and the world through finance and consumerism ? How can we use this dark side to help the proletariat, the lowest layers of workers in this society seize power and establish not a new dictatorship, be it even that of the proletariat, but a new beginning, and we are back in Genesis. The solution is simple. Destroy the whole financial institutions and corporations that control everything, first of all credit card companies, then banks, then telephone companies, etc. We are speaking here of flattening them down into pure ashes, dust to dust, Babylon burnt at the stake of our desire of freedom. Nothing left of them and their records. Then the world will start anew again and it will be a good old heterosexual couple with some kind of a floating penis in-between the frames, that will go out to take possession of this freed world, of this liberated world, of this resuscitated, rejuvenated, recreated world. That's the solution, and, mind you, before the Twin Towers. Of course, now we know it would take a little bit more than just flattening a dozen of skyscrapers to bring capitalism down, to stop consumerism, to whatever. There are back-ups everywhere and in places that cannot be reached. And that all will start if men liberate their own fighting instinct, their own fighting pleasure, their own suffering ecstasy. I must admit Brad Pitt fits in this fictional and virtual character and we regret slightly that he has to disappear when the new Genesis arrives. The slurpy slug from which he had emerged, the vacuous non-entity he had managed to regenerate is really not worth surviving, even in this genetically new world. If humanity is supposed to spring back up from such a soft brain and a spongy masculinity, it will not be glorious at all. But the film is a rather entertaining vision of what has become central in our world : violence, Thanatos, the desire to kill and destroy, in this world where we have reached the time when it could be possible to curb this survival instinct forever.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne