T.S. Eliot wrote about The Hollow Men:
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw.
John Robb writes about The Hollow State:
It is merely a shell that has some influence over the spoils of the economy. The real power rests in the hands of corporations and criminal/guerrilla groups that vie with each other for control of sectors of wealth production. For the individual living within this state, life goes on, but it is debased in a myriad of ways.
And Wall Street's Men of Power and Influence put a gun to our collective head and tell us if we don't give them lots and lots of money, right now, they will MELTDOWN, I SWEAR!
Woody Guthrie once told us:
Yes, as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
Are these people freaking kidding? This is all totally insane. I say: Let it melt. Let it melt...
Then lets make a new world.