Metastatic court decision of the day

The California Supreme Court has decided to allow gay marriage.  The progressive liberation of humanity from the bonds of convention and nature continues.  We shall be like gods.

Win-win

The right-wing of the internet is all atwitter over the opinion of a Swiss ethics panel that “the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong.”  Needless to say, this is wonderful.  “Plant rights” would be an excellent addition to the metastatic creation of the world by man.  On the other hand, this seems to be further solidifying the gnostic stance of the American Right in regards to creation.  They’re children of the Enlightenment, enamored of domination.

As an added bonus, no one seems able to formulate moral imperatives in anything other than the language of rights.

A word from the metastatic overlords

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

-Barack Obama

The Supreme Metastatic Overlord’s recent statement has been causing a ruckus, and therefore all agents of change are reminded to choose their words carefully, as the proles are apparently too caught in their false consciousness to recognize it as such.

The gay penguins will return

The reactionaries are already making use of this story about the withdrawal of pro-homosexual materials from British schools due to the protests of Muslim parents.  Why, they ask, do we cater so to Muslim sensibilities while we would never countenance such objections from Christians?  All they can see is the unfairness of it, and the apparent contradiction of our logic.

But strategically and dialectically it makes perfect sense.  The metastatic project requires that what society was be destroyed.  The use of premodern means here suits postmodern ends.  Indeed, it is all the better for the contradictions.  Let the Christians sputter about consistency; they will merely realize their powerlessness all the more as they are replaced even in their role of reaction.  They’ll betake themselves to the catacombs long before we bother to consign them there.  As for our tools, they will be broken when he have no further need for them.  They have tasks yet, though, among them making piety repulsive.