American pluralism is where being American now means that the people have lithified, where they have become a monolith of the most massive proportions. Pluralism here is a brand of politics seriously devoted to praying before the icons of our media, in imitatio de stelle, and we do look to our media icons for guidance, … Continue reading On Kosher Pastrami [Flash Fiction]

Without being an antagonist to the history of Western Civilization, or the idea that there is even such a thing as western civilization, or without becoming an intellectual opponent to bourgeois cultures and their collective economic civilization, I can say that virtually everything about Capitalism is obscene. I can say this without concluding that Capitalism … Continue reading Herodotus Said [A Short Story]