Biggest shit pile of the day

The “market-state” is the latest constitutional order, one that is just emerging in a struggle for primacy with the dominant constitutional order of the 20th century, the nation-state. Whereas the nation-state based its legitimacy on a promise to better the material well-being of the nation, the market-state promises to maximize the opportunity of each individual citizen.

-Philip Bobbitt

This is the kind of thinking that got us to where we are today.

The promises of nation-states were vile lies, and the worst traitors to their (the nation-states') ideals have now become the "gurus" of globalization. The promises of market states will mean one thing, and one thing only: the rich will maximize their already lavish opportunities at the expense of the remaining wretched opportunities for the poor. To think otherwise is to believe a fairy tale.

To put it another way, it's becoming an "all you can eat" world, with the rich gorging themselves on the fat while the poor only get to eat scraps (if they get to eat at all).

Here's another gem from Mr. Bobbitt:

States make war, not brigands; and the Al Qaeda network is a sort of virtual state, with a consistent source of finance, a recognized hierarchy of officials, foreign alliances, an army, published laws, even a rudimentary welfare system. It has declared war on the U.S. for much the same reason that Japan did in 1941: because we appear to frustrate its ambitions to regional hegemony.

I think that's horseshit. The so-called "terrorists" are making war on us in response to our making war on them, in that we have been stealing the wealth of their region and waging sociocide on their culture. The chief wannabee hegemon in this conflict is the emerging market state which has been masquerading as the United States of America.