It’s a compelling position, or would be in anything like a justly ordered world. But within the confines of this world, one in which our political, institutional, and corporate leaders—people who could do something about this right now—simply feign concern at an ongoing genocide or actively cheer it on, it cannot be anything but the straightforward manifestation of an imaginative desert. The system, predicated on endless feeding, is unable to imagine anything outside itself, let alone forms of resistance to itself. Since all benefit under such a system is individualistic, it becomes equally
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