Is it historical materialism that sustains structural violence, or the lack thereof? Is Bataille right - or Tuck and Yang? I seek the answers to the oppression I’ve faced and experienced - the solutions to both global poverty and racism in our global world. Marx through solely economics became overconfident and created a spring of death - he failed to account for human nature - the drive for animality. In America, there is constant amnesia – after a war, people mourn, yet are seduced again a few years after. There is a lack of reflection; a lack of life in the present - a lack of historical analysis and evaluation. Stuck in the atrocious ways of the past, America is worse than Omelas – in a lying economic system of invisible imperialism that doesn’t even try to expose itself to the populous. To deconstruct before enticing material action against this behemoth seems rational for me. Zizekian thought seduced me; it makes ironic sense to think for a long time - yet the constant possibility of being wrong is ever in the back of my head. I cannot succumb to overconfidence like the others; it was overconfidence that destroyed their philosophies. Fear of failure is imminent within me, but it is also paramount for my drive.
