In a world of perishing resources, mass refugees, and cartels of every sort, do freedom-loving people honestly think that the state in the future will be less tolerant towards spontaneous social and political action? If you haven't figured it out by now, the Tony Montana inspired statesmen are here to stay. The world is theirs. Long ago the state was founded by gangsters and it is increasingly clear that today they are still run by gangsters, after all these years. Imagine that! Dynasties don't fall; they inter-marry, transform, and morph into new, bigger, and meaner dynasties.
The state always had specially trained hitmen, from swordsmen protecting the dynasties in East Asia to 21st century spies and 'intelligent gathering' journeymen. It's nothing new, these hitmen have always been trained and used to cease and protect ill-begotten wealth. In some eras they do their work with class, conducting their confiscations in the night, undercover, away from the public eye. But in other eras, like ours, when the public eye has been so denigrated with gangster images from television, film, and music, there is no need to do the drity business in the night. Dirty business is cash money now. Stealing is practically accpeted morality. Gangsters are lauded for their ingenuity, strength, and of course, savagery. Say what you want about the Taliban, at least they've still got a sense of ethics. Any mention of ethics in the West is pushed aside as idealist talk and it doesn't matter if it is brought up in casual conversations or corporate boardrooms. Looting isn't done in the wake of catastrophic storms and hurricanes, it is done by men sitting behind their desks filling out their tax forms or calculating the growth of the company for the future month.
So in a culture of glorified criminality and gangsterism can you blame the state for flexing its muscle and showing its true color to society? Like a gay man coming out of the closet, we shouldn't berate the state with insults but congratulate it for showing its actual self to society. I respect the state when it does its work in the day than the night because the problem doesn't become the state any longer, but the people. And once that happens, the finger pointing stops and real action can take place.
So what's my opinion on Mexican drug cartels influencing government policy? Good. Now people have an idea of what exactly were working with. People think in images and if they see gangsters taking care of business so blatantly they might actually jot some notes down and who knows maybe even question what type of men the state attracts. The state is inherently a criminal operation, but not all men in it are gangsters and this fact confuses some people. "But my cousin works in that department, and I know he's not a criminal?" How can you respond to that without sounding paranoid? But recent developments surrounding the propaganda of the state have been very encouraging to reality. Ever since Nixon every president of America has taken active part in criminal activities both in and outside office. The facts are coming in and they are irrefutable: criminals and psychopaths are in the highest offices of government. It's just the nature of the job. We should count ourselves blessed, for if any of these criminals were articulate, charming and had class then a significant portion of the public wouldn't be so suspicious and weary of the state. Thanks to the crooked Nixon, the sleepy and bumbling Reagan, the dull Bush, the womanizer Clinton, and the idiot Bushie, people are finally getting the picture. The American state has produced a long line of unprofessional and shitty statesman that the future existence of such an operation can only be maintained by force. There is no class left in statesmanship. That ship has sailed for good, thank goodness. Looking at Obama trying to present a respectable face to such an operation just brings laughter to my heart. Somebody needs to tell them their little operation is over. There is no saving grace. There is no going back. If the elite of America had any sophistication and intelligence they would have never allowed Bushie be the public face of their operation for eight long years. Image is everything. Like AIG, the American state's reputation has long been tarnished.
The only possible way the current elite can remain in power is if they throw their mask off and finally show off their racket, the state, as it really is, the gangster state. The next thing is instilling sheer terror in the public's mind. They have shown that this is the course they will take and they've done business accordingly. There is no more denying the actuality of the state just as it no longer possible that anyone can deny the existence of a shadowy cabal trying to gain and maintain control of the world. They take Tony Montana's motto seriously, it's not just boasting to them. The World is Their's, they believe it. The question remains does the rest of the world believe it too?
Some more thoughts:
The only sure way of bringing the untouchable gangsters of AIG and other Wall Street Giants back to reality is to prove to them that they are not untouchable. They run gangster operations but they don't think of themselves as gangsers. Unlike street-level criminals and even mafia dons these crooks don't expect a bullet in the head at the end of all of this. A real gangster joins the trade knowing full well the repercussions so they don't dry out their victims, they take just enough to keep coming back. But the gangsters on Wall Street don't know when enough is enough because they never felt any kind of pressure and there is a reasonable explanation for this; they are the only players of the game, therefore, competition is non-existent. They don't have to worry about turf wars with the locals, they fucking own the turf lock, stock, and barrel. The only pressure that is left is the people and we all know where their head is and it's not in the game.
So what's my solution to AIG and the Bank Bailouts? Easy. You send a few hitmen and let them know what's what. Regulations won't solve shit. Neither will taxing bonuses. It's the culture we have to deal it. The President is not totally clueless, he knows that if any sort of respectability is to be brought back to the future pillaging business it needs to be done with a little bit of responsibility, like say, wait for the victim to get back on his feet before you hit him in the knees again.
Sadly, though, no such deed will be done. People are either too scared or haven't figured out to gather their resources and pay a few hit men to get the job done. These hitmen won't do it out of idealism, they'll need cash, and where is the people's cash? In evil knievel's stash cause the men who stole it are blue-blooded daring devils, representing real Americana.
Moreover, the President's main job is to keep up appearances and this has been his role for a while. But now the bleeding empire is in need of a more caring hand, someone with grace. Enter Obama. He's the clean up guy like Harvey Keital in Pulp Fiction, except Obama is not 'The Wolf', he's 'The Lamb' who will be fed to the slaughter once this is all done. This isn't just a poet's analogy, Obama actually alludes to this imagery by using 'cleaning this whole mess' rhetoric in his speeches. He's a janitor in the White House. Why else do you think he works late nights and takes his jacket off?
If Obama really assesses the situation and starts to think critically and historically he might be 'The Lamb' that turned. If he is as smart as they say he is he needs to approach the mess like a detective on a crime scene and begin to collect all the facts and lock up the proper criminals. Either that or you go the McNulty route and make up a bunch of shit and fuck up the fuck up even worse. Like McNulty the President is so far a very good actor. He's second in line to Denzel Washington as the second black man with Washington to his name to win the Oscar. Anyways, where was I? Oh yeah, you treat gangsters like gangsters; it doesn't matter if they're operating in the streets or in corporate boardrooms. You put a bullet in a few once they overreach. Killers need to be killed, or else they'll turn into a new breed of killers who will live on and on and that is the situation that were in as it pertains to Wall Street and the Gangster State. If we don't get our hands dirty now then they'll live on ever more powerful with brand new tricks and adaptations. Any more backpedaling will put future generation of men and women in jeopardy. It is a question of ethics. We all know what needs to be done. Will we wait for a more cruel and savage gangster from the streets to rise amongst the masses and kill the gangsters on Wall Street? I don't know about you but I don't want to trade one type of gangster for another one.
Even more thoughts:
I want to further write about the gangster state and develop my thoughts on it. I want to write about it from a pop cultural standpoint, tracing the films that have influenced the minds of so many men and women and analyzing their subconscious influence on people's ideas about ethics, society, leadership, etc. I also want to write about slum lords and the rising gangster states of the South. Also, the states of Israel, Russia, and America will be cited as some of the big examples. If I have any sort of life in me I am going to develop this into a book and hopefully have it published ten years from now when I will be thirty. The book will be wide-ranging; I will draw from different types of sources, and analyze the whole mess from a number of perspectives. It'll be about ethics, leadership, pop culture, organizations, the mafia, and of course, the state. I'll probably be indebted to a bunch of writers who have laid the groundwork before me but I hope to put my own spin on things.
I'll leave you with a couple of lines from one of my favourite rap songs, Cunninlynguists' America Loves Gangsters.
My soul came, spent, I tried to get it back
Thinking that if my heart stopped that my body could relax
But there's no time to be laxed
Because there's a war all through creation
God's Warriors are dying and gangsters are their replacements
