Tina:
There is no alternative as Margaret Thatcher said.

(Millions of dead cops take to the streets.)

Tata:
There are thousands of alternatives as the alter-globalists say.

(The flaneurs have finally become bored with their aimless drift through the city as self-alienation.)

Chorus:
Both quite true...any other system than capitalism will be fascist or there will be no system at all---good luck with that.

(Just another project now everything is exactly the same as everything else.)

Tina:
& there’s no pure capitalism that can function…democratic intervention from society & the state is necessary for the market economy.

(All the alternative set-ups totally realized into desire implosion.)

Tata:
Uncontrolled capital will eat itself.

(Finally the death of the avantgarde phantasm---due to lack of interest.)

Chorus:
Any radical attempt at escaping, transcending, exiting, capitalism is just as self-destructive.

(Doing what we are doing without inscribing it on a meta-level which would be pointless anyway.)

Tina:
Unlike radicalism & consumerism, the evil twins, capital has a reality principle.

(All intentionality finds itself by the inventiveness of need.)

Tata:
Capital without a reality principle is not capital, but the narcissistic utopia of consumption without production.

(An updated version of the romanticisation of tuberculosis sufferers who are supposed to experience feelings of euphoria, 'Spes phthisica', & energy bursts which make women more beautiful & men more creative just before dying.)

Chorus:
You can only establish a bit of distance to capital…by being a failure.

(Epidemic multidrug-resistant killer-viruses like TB will drift aimlessly in the megacities of globalized economy.)

Tina:
Hello, anti-capitalists looking for the escape---anything is regulated by capital except its antithesis, the fiasco.

(You can't kill viruses off---work along with them, bend their trajectories gently.)

Tata:
So ego-trippers having a bit of success are doing it because capitalism made they do it then, eh?

(But never let them smooch you into their identity-defining defying of any point of view.)

Chorus:
No, that’s just their excuse.

(Only an axis can be an exit.)

Tina:
Always a good explanation, never a recognition of shame.


(Background noise as horizon.)

Tata:
‘Capitalism needs leftwing critique & alternative lifestyles to regulate itself & make itself sexy’ says the intellectual/artist & makes a career out of that, financed by corporate sponsorships &/or the market economy state.

(Heat-death as cool medium.)

Chorus:
The professionally Good People, the clergymen of secular modernity---always wanting the most radical revolutionary upheavals, never able to identify their own mediocrity.

(Consumerism killing itself as usual won't fool us anymore.)

Tina:
Only the conservatives can change anything.

(Critique is affirmative says the critique.)

Tata:
The poor who get micro loans are the true force of development in the world.

(Don't wait for the big shift---you will be short-changed.)

Chorus:
For society, economy, the free market.

(Just be it.)