Garrison Davis

Virilio calls this a psychosis which governs its entire politics of production.

And he writes that the replacement of the American industries of the automobile and the cinema with the military-industrial complex, quote, does not involve a rational, functional, or useful choice, but rather entirely psychological, or rather psychopathological.

It stems from contempt for and abandonment of productive rapport with the milieu.

Every investment is made to escape from it, unquote.

For contemporary reference, go check out the stock price of Palantir.

And on the larger economic and international level, Trump's tariffs, his trade wars, and the self-destruction of the United States' geopolitical standing are all expressions of this suicidal state in action.

Virilio claims the state of total war, where the economy of war has become the economy of peace, is facilitated by a transformation in the American sense of freedom, where, quote unquote, the free as a subject, as in the land of the free, quote, is no longer properly spoken of as a citizen.

He is an anonymous organism without culture, without society, and without memory.

This figure has no historical precedent.

Assistance has become survival.

Non-assistance, a condemnation to death.

All liberation henceforth has for him invariably the appearance of death.

Of the end, suicide or murder, unquote.

This sort of freedom from social services, freedom from the state, freedom from assistance as a movement of the death drive also provides insight into people's willingness to and even desire to vote against their own material interests, especially when their political struggle has turned against society itself.

Only in transformation of ordinary social life into the horrific, in the minds of the populace, can the fascist, quote, find their surest means of governing, the legitimization of his politics and military strategies.

And right up to the end, far from weakening the repulsive nature of his powers, the ruins, the horrors, the crimes, the chaos of total war will generally only increase in scope.

In Hitler's 1945 Telegram 71, he writes, If the war is lost, may the nation perish.

Here, Hitler decides to join forces with his enemies in order to complete the destruction of his own people.

by obliterating the last remaining sources of its life support system, civil reserves of every kind, potable water, fuel, provisions.

This is the normal outcome of the politics of dialectical retreat.