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>>12246006
what did he choose

you don't need an Economics of Spirit, and if anything, you probably shouldn't have one. but we *do* have one, and the name for it in the 20C was, War Machine. this is one of the fundamental truths about political-libidinal economy: total employment. even Heidegger must have felt this to some degree, knowing that his Teutoburg cottage was ultimately defended by the power of hydroelectric dams and advanced jet propulsion. and Hegel and Marx form an inseparable dyad. however it is that Marx arrives at his theory of capital, the role played by Hegel in it is unmistakable, and whatever it is that that Hegel drew upon - which is the well and truly mystical - it lives on in the world today as his ghost, a ghost which has animated every major political struggle in the West down through the twentieth century, not the least of which was WW2 and the Cold War. today the entire American enterprise seems to be riven to its core over the meaning of socialism. postmodernity follows from modernity, and there is nothing modernity without Hegel and his inheritors.

what frightens about an Anton Chigurh is not the same thing as what frightens about a Judge Holden. Holden never lacked for employment or wealth; in his case it was among other things pure semantic wizardry that could convince an audience that he did in fact speak for the Law. Chigurh is arguably even worse, a being as chaoid as machine process itself. this is obviously not to argue for diabolical nemocentric supermen as these, only to suggest a way of understanding why it is that they occur and where they come from.