• an excerpt from Part 2:
Democracy
“ The flag travels to squalid climes, and our speech drowns the sound of the drum.
“ In the heartland we’ll feel the most cynical whoring. We shall massacre every justified revolt.
“ We’re off to the clammy lands of spices! — in the service of the most gigantic industrial or military exploitation.
“ Good-bye to here, or to anywhere. We’re conscripts of good will, our policies will be ferocious; ignorant of science, we’re depraved in our comforts; and let the world blow up! This is the real progress. Forward, march! ”
- Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations, 1875
Introduction:
♦ Using their own words, Part 2 begins by showing how the Founding Fathers of the United States hated the democracy of classical Athens and so admired the oligarchic Roman Republic that — after their Philadelphia Coup of 1787 — they used Rome as a model for the republican Constitution of the United States.
♦ Part 2 continues as a new American Few take over the country by waving the false — and fradulent — flag of de-mock-racy over the American Roman Republic.