Charles Pierce Asks: "How does one reason in the face of brutalized futility?"

[TheSarcastinator]

29. what you absolutely fail to understand and acknowledge is that your lifestyle depends upon violence

Our (in the US) privilege and lifestyle depends entirely upon violence by proxy, both currently and historically. For you pretend that you are "nonviolent" because you are not actively looting is an astounding amount of self-deception.

You seem to believe that violence is only morally proper when sanctioned by the state. You do not understand that your entire lifestyle, from the clothes you wear, to the car you fill with fuel and drive, and the very nation you live in, were all founded and supported entirely by force and violence. Your passive resistance is nothing but subtle collaboration with state-sanctioned brutality.

"The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world." - James Baldwin