Garrison Davis

Virilio's idea of the suicidal state emerges as this new mode of governing to solve the crisis of post-war liberalism in Germany after World War I, as well as risked by the United States after each of our many wars.

Quote, one of the keys to the present situation is on one side the overly informed status of experts of the system, and on the other, the under-informed status of all those who are supposedly thinking outside of it, unquote.

Verlio says that the experts no longer know how to use their hordes of information except to gain money and status by continually adding to their body of work.

Meanwhile, the outsiders produce the political and cultural undercurrent of modern folklore and ordinary life.

But this limp dichotomy cannot last for very long on its own.

So Virilio proposes the new emergence of a third category of people who make use of information for an end, the ultimate end, the directors of the suicidal state.

While the outsiders, ideologues and artists, simply try to simulate catharsis, quote, unquote.

To paraphrase Virilio, the fascist project exploits man's alienation from his environment through pollution, economic insecurity, emotional insecurity, de-socialization, and seeks to replace any legitimate grievance he has with society with a more repulsive and expressive force.

the fear of society, which is superimposed on a new military schema of total war and internal invasion, all towards a nihilistic end of dropping the bomb on ourselves.

The oscillation of external and internal destruction, epitomized by the death drive, is mirrored by the imperial boomerang, where the violence of colonial expansion is forced to return to its homeland.

Once home, the drive remains, resulting in a war on society, directly or through other means.

But this is a war on its own people, or as Trump would say, the enemy within.

To quote a paragraph from A Thousand Plateaus, "...so-called total war seems less a state undertaking than an undertaking of a war machine that appropriates the state and channels it into a flow of absolute war whose only possible outcome is the suicide of the state itself."

There is, in fascism, a realized nihilism.

Unlike the totalitarian state, which does its utmost to seal all possible lines of escape, fascism is constructed on an intense line of escape, which it transforms into a line of pure destruction and abolition.

It is curious that from the very beginning, the Nazis announced to Germany what they were bringing.

At once, wedding bells and death, including their own deaths and the death of the Germans.

They thought they would perish, but that their undertaking would be resumed all across Europe, all over the world, throughout the solar system.

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