The Theory is Incontestable; the Actual is Due to Arrive Shortly

Classes on Conceptual Art for post-Taliban Afghan women...

In this article Cockburn of the Spectator (or this to avoid the firewall) talks about seeing, at 0:31, the moment the American mission failed in Afghanistan. Yet the Arabella (or it may be, Perdita or Clarissa) in the clip is undoubtedly British, and there is no shortage of this type anywhere in the western world. This is a systemic, a structural, cake and arse party.

It is the cretinous explication of Duchamp's "toilet", delivered with ironclad certainty, which shows why the West is doomed.

Those who cannot see the hard object just beyond the end of their noses that the unenlightened call Reality, are forced to collide with it.

Stalin unleashed a class of Functionaries who, armed only with the Short Course and a pistol, were to transform this Reality into a by-the-book Utopia. Our own New Functionaries (yes, you, Arabella) and the Pooh-Bahs who urge them on are failing just as surely and thoroughly.