Venezuela and the Narcotic of Spectacle

The theatrical management of imperial power

Richard Wilson exposes the opiate of theater behind the Venezuela spectacle.

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

— William Burroughs

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

— Antonin Artaud

When empires collapse, there i…