The Consumption of Security
Security cannot be divided.
\- Michel Poniatowski, March 4, 1 976
"REVOLUTION GOES FASTER than the people," declared President-General Costa Gomes at the beginning of the Portugese events.
How could such a thing be possible? Simply because in the final account the West's so-called revolutions have never been made by the people, but by the military institution. Economic liberalism has been .only a liberal pluralism of the order of speeds of penetration. To the heavy model of the hemmed in bourgeoisie, to the single schema of the weighty Marxist mobil-machung (ostensibly planned control of the movement of goods, persons, ideas) , the West has long opposed the diversity of its logistical hierarchy, the utopia of a national wealth invested in automobiles, travel, movies, performances . . . A capitalism that has become one of jetsets and instant-information banks, actually a whole social illusion subordinated to the strategy of the cold war. Let's make no mistake: whether it's the drop-outs, the beat generation, automobile drivers, migrant workers, tourists, olympic champions or travel agents, the military-industrial democracies have made every social category, without distinction, into unknown soldiers of the order of speeds-speeds whose hierarchy is controlled more and more each day by the State (headquarters) , from the pedestrian to the rocket, from the metabolic to the technological.
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