January 20th, inauguration day represents for me a frontier, a line of demarcation in time. Following that day I expect palpable change to swiftly be imposed upon the country. Efforts ongoing to erase the crimes committed by the president-elect are sure to proceed with enhanced efficiency to their revisionistic end.

America is to be remade, “made great” again, and again, ad infinitum.  Can there be any point of terminus, an end point of this intent to purify our improvised, admixture of good and evil, the record of our way of life? Is ‘enough’ to be achieved, the rewriting of history, the cleansing of undesirables, you know, those who often pick our fruits and vegetables and work in the restaurant kitchens. I anticipate unrest, a lot of unrest.

Is there likely to be a “march forward” proclamation issued at the inauguration? Is hell to freeze over?

The quote offered today from Baudrillard’s book suggests that we are certain to witness, and to be dragged into a full-on attempt at a society wide cleanup. Government is to be transformed into a giant and powerful machine to sweep into the dumpster, classes of people, ideas, and institutions, even to purify historical memory, and to double down on capitalist extraction.

…what might come
after the orgy
— mourning or melancholia?

Doubtless neither,
but an interminable clean-up
of all the vicissitudes of modern history
and its processes of liberation
(of peoples, sex, dreams, art and the unconscious
– in short, of all that makes up
the orgy of our times),

In an atmosphere dominated by
the apocalyptic presentiment
that all this
is coming
to an end.

Rather than pressing forward
and taking flight into the future,
we prefer the retrospective apocalypse,
and a blanket revisionism.

Our societies
have all become revisionistic:
they are quietly rethinking everything,
laundering their political crimes, their scandals,
licking their wounds, fueling their ends.

The Illusion of the End by Jean Baudrillard, page 22, pub. 1992