http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2...on-history-and-america-jim-morrison-ron-paul/
"RCM: In Our History you ask if theres a potential wild card in an internal economic collapse of the empire? Is America an empire? And if so, do you foresee the fall of the empire?
OS: Yes. Yes, both. I dont think its a wild card, I think its a given. Theres no way that we can continue this spending spree. In fact, I think in many ways the most interesting candidate Id even vote for him if he was running against Obama is Ron Paul. Because hes the only one of anybody whos saying anything intelligent about the future of the world.
How do we go on being who we are? We have an identity crisis here. But as long as we keep running this fantasy through our minds that we can dominate history, its not a wild card, its a given!
RCM: What do you think of Francis Fukuyamas notion of the end of history
OS: That was an extremely hubristic statement. The kind of madness that manifested itself in this country in the late 90s, when Time was putting [Larry] Summers and [Robert] Rubin on the cover*, proclaiming in metaphor that this was the American triumph. This was the kind of madness that setup the disastrous 2000s.
And now, too Obama in welcoming home the troops was saying how we had achieved stability, freedom and democracy in Iraq. It was the same language that Bush used and Obama was the guy who called Iraq a dumb war.
So you tell me, what have we learned? Or whos faking, or whos kidding who? Why is it necessary for every candidate except for Ron Paul to pay obeisance to this hypocrisy that the U.S. is a good force in the world, and that it is the dominant force, and can be the policeman of the world? Since when? What gave us that right? The right of empire, the right of force?"
"RCM: In Our History you ask if theres a potential wild card in an internal economic collapse of the empire? Is America an empire? And if so, do you foresee the fall of the empire?
OS: Yes. Yes, both. I dont think its a wild card, I think its a given. Theres no way that we can continue this spending spree. In fact, I think in many ways the most interesting candidate Id even vote for him if he was running against Obama is Ron Paul. Because hes the only one of anybody whos saying anything intelligent about the future of the world.
How do we go on being who we are? We have an identity crisis here. But as long as we keep running this fantasy through our minds that we can dominate history, its not a wild card, its a given!
RCM: What do you think of Francis Fukuyamas notion of the end of history
OS: That was an extremely hubristic statement. The kind of madness that manifested itself in this country in the late 90s, when Time was putting [Larry] Summers and [Robert] Rubin on the cover*, proclaiming in metaphor that this was the American triumph. This was the kind of madness that setup the disastrous 2000s.
And now, too Obama in welcoming home the troops was saying how we had achieved stability, freedom and democracy in Iraq. It was the same language that Bush used and Obama was the guy who called Iraq a dumb war.
So you tell me, what have we learned? Or whos faking, or whos kidding who? Why is it necessary for every candidate except for Ron Paul to pay obeisance to this hypocrisy that the U.S. is a good force in the world, and that it is the dominant force, and can be the policeman of the world? Since when? What gave us that right? The right of empire, the right of force?"
