Ciudad Juarez is all our futures. This is the inevitable war of capitalism gone mad | Ed Vulliamy | Comment is free | The Guardian: "Mexico's war a different war, and of our time, is that it is about, in the end, nothing. ...
I answer tentatively that I think there is a correlation between the causelessness of Mexico's war and the savagery. The cruelty is in and of the nihilism, the greed for violence reflects the greed for brands, and becomes a brand in itself....
Narco-cartels are not pastiches of global corporations, nor are they errant bastards of the global economy – they are pioneers of it....
So Mexico's war is how the future will look, because it belongs not in the 19th century with wars of empire, or the 20th with wars of ideology, race and religion – but utterly in a present to which the global economy is committed, and to a zeitgeist of frenzied materialism we adamantly refuse to temper: it is the inevitable war of capitalism gone mad. "
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