The Polycrisis Industrial Complex
The “war on terror,” the “war on drugs,” and the fight against irregular migration all exhibit a pattern in which politicians and private interests benefit from problems that cannot be solved with the strategies they offer. Instead, the purported threat worsens as politicians, contractors, and enforcers exploit it for their own ends.
LONDON/OXFORD – In Constantine Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians,” the much-feared barbarians never turn up. “Now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?” the poem asks. “Those people were a kind of solution.”