Americans May Have No Identity, But They

The Confrontation Between America And Europe Reveals Not So Much A Rapprochement As A Distortion, An Unbridgeable Rift. There Isn't Just A Gap Between Us, But A Whole Chasm Of Modernity.

As For Freedom, It Will Soon Cease To Exist In Any Shape Or Form. Living Will Depend Upon Absolute Obedience To A Strict Set Of Arrangements, Which It Will No Longer Be Possible To Transgress. The Air Traveler Is Not Free. In The Future, Life's Passengers Will Be Even Less So: They Will Travel Through Their Lives Fastened To Their (corporate) Seats.

We Are No Longer In A State Of Growth; We Are In A State Of Excess. We Are Living In A Society Of Excrescence. The Boil Is Growing Out Of Control, Recklessly At Cross Purposes With Itself, Its Impacts Multiplying As The Causes Disintegrate.

It Is In Love With Its Limitless Horizontality, As New York May Be With Its Verticality.

Illusion Is No Longer Possible, Because The Real Is No Longer Possible.