Guy Debord, Where Are You Now?

Spectacular society has certainly reached its apex with the current administration. While the press and public concern themselves with fragmentary diversions, all the world over power is exerting its influence and rearing its ugly head.

In the meantime, the apparatchiks of the presidency are content to sing the praises of spectacular dominance, asserting, in regard to the judgments of the House investigation into Hurrican Katrina, that "the President is not interested in the past." Rarely has power more clearly, and publicly, stated its intentions. The obvious interpretation is that it no longer feels threatened in any meaningful way by anyone or anything. And why should it, when just 2 years ago the American public pronounced its own judgment on itself in one last depressive nod to the pretensions of participatory democracy?

History no longer exists for the American President, nor for the American people, and so one is justified in wondering whether history exists at all anymore, or if we are not indeed doomed to wander blind.