Trapping Fools

By now you will have heard about the Supreme Court's ruling on April 2nd to end restrictions on overall contributions to federal campaigns. If I know you, there is a good chance that you will agree with me on what this signifies: the further collapse into political impotence of the citizen majority, the tilt of power leaning in favor of the ultra-wealthy. But you will probably disagree with me about its greater significance. There is none whatsoever. 

The inconsolable outrage of progressives is as amenable to what they ostensibly despise about the ruling as it is completely predictable. They clamor for the right to an alternative configuration for trapping fools in the serial order, where all voices are rendered equally impotent by the redistribution of contingencies separating individual speech from the actions of state. Instead of allowing for state sovereignty to converge on the sovereignty of a few individuals, they would let it disseminate into the inhuman dimensions of the world at large.

But dissemination is always already immanent without being represented through legal mechanisms. Representation is only a passing illusion, a futile gesture for arresting the collapse into immanence.