'death | squads' | in | Brazil; | or |
that | the | Mafia | can | burn |
down | a | hotel | in | the |
United | States | to | facilitate | a |
racket. | But | how | can | we |
know | what | purpose | was | ultimately |
served | by | the | 'mad | killers |
of | Brabant'? | [11] | It | is |
hard | to | apply | the | principle |
Cui | prodest? | where | so | many |
active | interests | are | so | well |
concealed. | The | result | is | that |
under | the | rule | of | the |
integrated | spectacle, | we | live | and |
die | at | the | confluence | of |
innumerable | mysteries. Media/police | rumors | acquire | instantly |
-- | or | at | worst | after |
three | or | four | repetitions | -- |
the | indisputable | status | of | age-old |
historical | evidence. | By | the | legendary |
authority | of | the | spectacle | of |
the | day, | odd | characters | eliminated |
in | silence | can | reappear | as |
fictive | survivors, | whose | return | can |
always | be | conjured | up | or |
computed, | and | proved | by | the |
mere | say-so | of | specialists. | They |
exist | somewhere | between | the | Acheron |
and | the | Lethe, | these | dead |
whom | the | spectacle | has | not |