Garrison Davis

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.

From the man who had written, the idea of protection haunts and fulfills life."

Fascism hijacks the mechanism of evolutionary and revolutionary escape and reverts it into a mechanism of destruction.

Instead of resolving crises, it produces constant crisis for it to feed off of, forming, as Deleuze and Guattari say, a war machine instead of resonating in a state apparatus.

a war machine that no longer had anything but war as its object and would rather annihilate its own servants than stop the destruction, to quote A Thousand Plateaus.

This is war not for conquest or revolution, but war as its own end.

The hollowing out of public institutions and social services, the divestment from the milieu of life, leads people to turn towards the suicidal state as the only force of movement.