What happens when a society produces more wealth, energy, and resources than it can productively use? Georges Bataille argued that this "excess" is the central problem of economics. In his theory of the general economy, laid out in The Accursed Share, Bataille claimed that civilizations inevitably generate surpluses that cannot be endlessly reinvested into growth. Eventually, this excess must be spent, wasted, or destroyed.

For Bataille, societies dispose of surplus energy through activities ranging from art, festivals, monuments, and luxury to war, imperial expansion, financial speculation, and even catastrophic destruction. The question is not whether excess will be expended, but whether it will be spent consciously and creatively or squandered violently.

Bataille's radical challenge to conventional economics, his theory of excess expenditure helps explain everything from ancient sacrifice and royal extravagance to modern consumerism, military spending, speculative bubbles, and the recurring rise of the great specter of the decade Donald J Trump

America has discovered a miraculous growth beneath it's purple mountains.

At first it is the size of a fist.... Then a heart...... Then a whale....

Every day it produces more capital than the nation can use.....

Donald Trump says "You will get tired of winning..."

The tumor swells.

Veins spread beneath roads and houses. Arteries pulse through the countryside. The market grows more insidiously than any manifestation of hell before it. Food dwindles. Machines multiply. Liquidity piles up in clouds.

Yet the tumor does not stop.

It cannot stop.

Its nature is to accelerate.

Soon the nation faces a terrible problem: not starvation, because nothing tastes as good as feeling skinny, but being tired of winning...

The streets clog with gig workers, coders and professors.

Stocks bubble up like the spontaneously appearing surveillance orb drones in "The Prisoner". Buildings bulge from internal pressure. Citizens begin to hear a constant hum of military specified radio frequencies. 5G, 6G, five head snakes hiss.

The old men explain...

The body must bleed... defecate... ejaculate...Release, release, release.

But after each individual release, each share holder forgets in his pod and falls asleep.

The shareholders demand torture rooms live streaming…. The engineers build larger vessels... The economists insist that another nuclear blast will absorb the excess…

The tumor swells further.... The leader dies....

Plato's walls become translucent.... Through the flesh, people can see dark shapes moving inside....dark shapes multiplying within them......

Christ appears. Tired of winning... Christ appears…..Christ appears tired of winning….

The first eruptions are beautiful. Blood fountains become public spectacles. Crimson fireworks stain the sky. Artists paint with living plasma. Great festivals are held where thousands dance in the warm viscous fluids of surplus.

For a time, the pressure eases.

But market demands sadistic torture.

The tumor grows until it presses against the foundations of reality itself.

Now the excess seeks another outlet. Tired of winning.

The tumor awakens its own intelligence. It is an aberration, therefore its intelligence is artificial.

One morning an entire ideology blossoms into puce ectoplasm.

Factories split open and reveal rows of diamond flowers rotating souls into golden powder. Cathedrals disintegrate. Government buildings sprout fingers that claw at the clouds.

The civilians are dead.

Yet the state loops:

The data must converge.

The tumors merge into a single immense mouth stretching from horizon to horizon.

The mouth devours nature, color, and oblivion alike.

It consumes the accumulated surplus in one ecstatic convulsion.

When the feast is over, the nation expires.

The great error of modern economics is the belief that capitalism is a machine for satisfying needs.

Georges Bataille knew that one day we would have Donald J Trump.

A civilization does not perish because it lacks wealth.

A civilization perishes because it produces too much.

The problem is never scarcity.

The problem is excess.

A civilization drowning in its own abundance.

Every action appears irrational when viewed through the lens of scarcity.

Every action becomes perfectly rational when viewed through the lens of excess.

The horror is not that capitalism is failing.

The beauty is that it is succeeding beyond all measure.