Nutshell: The Republic and the Third Spectacle

Thursday 18 March 2010

let me repeat what i just read,

"Indians celebrated a

peaceful 61st Republic Day...

undaunted by terror threats,

Maoist shutdowns,

separatist boycotts or

even the morning fog

that blanketed New Delhi"

and the day was marked by;

'a solemn start of

a colourful spectacle'

by the coming together of

our President, Prime Minister,

and the President of South Korea.

Few minutes ago,

I met yet another outlander

cornered by the elite agora;

cringing, humiliated

having lost its steel to Posco,

which possibly is vying to be

the new UNESCO,

Indian Republic then, a victim of symbolic violence

now, a victim of real vehemence

quickly handed me
the news report, the film

and a t-shirt that appealed

'Save me from operation Green Hunt'

with a look both

apprehensive and affront,

it is precisely then that

I had the 'goose flesh moment'

the State and the market economy

when I found

Debord's Third Spectacle

laughing at me!