TomDispatch - Tomdispatch Interview: Chalmers Johnson on Our Fading Republic
Any last words?
"I am still working on them." He writes.
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"That's why I'm planning on calling the third volume of what I now think of as 'The Blowback Trilogy,' Nemesis. Nemesis was the Greek goddess of vengeance. She also went after people who became too arrogant, who were so taken with themselves that they lost all prudence. She was always portrayed as a fierce figure with a scale in one hand -- think, Judgment Day -- and a whip in the other.
TD: And you believe she's coming after us?
Johnson: Oh, I believe she's arrived. I think she's sitting around waiting for her moment, the one we're coming up on right now. "
Any last words?
"I am still working on them." He writes.
...
"That's why I'm planning on calling the third volume of what I now think of as 'The Blowback Trilogy,' Nemesis. Nemesis was the Greek goddess of vengeance. She also went after people who became too arrogant, who were so taken with themselves that they lost all prudence. She was always portrayed as a fierce figure with a scale in one hand -- think, Judgment Day -- and a whip in the other.
TD: And you believe she's coming after us?
Johnson: Oh, I believe she's arrived. I think she's sitting around waiting for her moment, the one we're coming up on right now. "
