Saturday, May 07, 2005
Draining politics dry and a side order of fries
The notion of dissipating states that we are constantly witnessing these days does not mean that we should look at it from an animated view point. That doesn't mean that there is virtually no need for governements or that existing or pre existing institutions might have to always cloned by virtual ones. The whole theory behind the rapidly dissipating state means that both the modern and post- modern concept cannot embrace any quick fix solutions or well planned out policies made by decision makers. War in the past has been more or less an ultimatio ratio on the nature and being of what these states are and how they will come out to be. They are for the most part something that don't leave us anything to work with these days and at times much to work with. Think of the American civil war that took place nearly 145 years ago in which case 1)the issue of slavey unlike ever before is making its headway into the world today on a scale unseen before and 2)an ever increasingly divided American marked by the last wtwo presidential elections of the so caled 'red' and 'blue ' states. At present the need for states to govern society affected by problems that arise and could possibly threatened public safety and health, civil rights, freedom of choice and expression can in one way or another have uncontrollable consequences, especially with the social awareness being sprung forth by the use and growth of the internet. The best example of this would be the case of the woman from Las Vegas, Nevada who claimed she bit into a finger tip while she was eating a bowl of chilli purchased at a local Wendy's in San Jose, California. As it turned out the whole scenario was a fraud and now she is facing criminal charges among them, if I am not mistaken grand larceny charges that resulted in the loss of money and jobs of the initial public threat.Among the strange things about the case is how come such a loss came of the big and even appears irrecoverable. The answer to that is not as difficult as one would think as fast food institutions is perhaps among one of the fastest declining institutions of them all. With the threat of another Mad cow disease or avian bird flu seem to be on the loom means that these very institutions very existence would not have the classic faith as being there or or as any type of integral part of American culture. In other words what one is seeing here are problems that have roots and causes that are not so political but the consequences of them inadvertedly being so--as we can see in this case as nothing more than another scam artist attempt of milking somebody out of a lot of money which ironically ended up jettisoned, shaped and moulded the political structure or outcome of the United Sates and perhaps, argueably the world.*
*The idea of exporting another fast food restaraunt to another part of the world such as Baghdad or Kabul has little or no exemplary or symbolic importance as far as politically, and in some ways, culturally liberating these countries.
*The idea of exporting another fast food restaraunt to another part of the world such as Baghdad or Kabul has little or no exemplary or symbolic importance as far as politically, and in some ways, culturally liberating these countries.
# posted by Jamie @ 4:48 PM 
