In fact, it has only ever been one small step from the mass portable empire to the otherworld exodus of populations - 'one small step for man but a giant leap for mankind', as Neil Armstrong once said, as he disembarked on the night stara star or, more precisely, a nightspot, that some would now like to see back on the agenda, despite President Obama's rejection o f the idea.
One thing's for sure and that is that it's now too late to have a private life. Yesterday's 'soli tary' crowds, who we're told are now so 'smart', are nothing more than hordes primed for a longhaul exodus, OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD exile beyond o ur earthly homeland, for the liberated· and dispersed societies of the great diaspora, deportation having been merely a fatal sign of an EXTERNALIZATION that has no future, where movement is all and the goal is pointless.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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