Playing "hide the power" is the order of the day. To reject this game is to live in an incoherent and paradoxical theatre that seems to be directed by a shady leather jacket wearing producer.

This isn't just a matter of governance, but of consciousness. It's one thing to use slide of hand when absolving from accountability of stagnate wages and inflated property value by pointing to the human rights of immigrants, it's another thing to wake up every day earnestly...

believing that humans have a free will that operates indifferent to power and that our modern Liberal moral structure is the natural and best in history as if it has been revealed as an eternal Platonic Form. Thank God we invented writing to put it in law.

Of course, the people have the power, that's what Liberal Democratic Capitalism would want you to think but I'm sure that's just a coincidence . How else would we rise up as grass roots activists to buy rainbow flag covered consumer products and commit to..

eternal national debt slavery in the name of the environment? T̶a̶x̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶f̶t̶ Taxation is a cool and hip rebellion for the environment kids
So we're all good little Liberal individuals now. With our free will and rainbow starbucks identity. But wait...

If we all vote for a leader who makes all of our dreams come true, won't that give them POWER? Everybody knows that power is inherently evil and even my manager deserves to be resented as a usurper of his position. Fear not...

We have transferred power away from the president and into a giant impossible bureaucratic maze like the end scene of Indiana Jones where the arch of the covenant is buried storage. The poor trinket probably feels like Kafka.

So who benefits from all this? Not anyone you know and things will get shittier the more ontologically Liberal people become and the more that happens, the more brazenly Capital will harvest adrenochrome from children.

Ontological Absolutists are waiting for you, Prodigal Sons.