The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

We are at war. Human cultures are divided into two basic types twoantagonistic forces one based on symbolic exchange which is dual andreciprocal and one based o... » 

We are at war. Human cultures are divided into two basic types twoantagonistic forces one based on symbolic exchange which is dual andreciprocal and one based on money and sign exchange which is totalising. Nonwestern societies can create genuinely symbolic durable cultures. But thewestern worldsystem based on a logic of empire is designed to create anintegrated and sealed reality to snap tight around the world and its image. Ifthe first is indestructible and the second is irresistible who can win andwhat will victory look like? The answer may lie in the capacity for violence inthe worldsystem itself threatening that system from within with the purest ofsymbolic forms the challenge of resistance. The Intelligence of Evil or theLucidity Pact is the summation of Baudrillards work over twenty years. It isthe essential analysis of the fundamental conflict of our time. «