Breathing the Bogus Air of Normalcy
Wealth Bondage: Comment from Tutor at Liberal as the New Niggrah post :
"Something good is happening too, the langauge is being made to come back to life, torn between two sets of cliches, one liberal, one a mockery of it. What strikes me is that these machiavels are much better propagandists and black-hearted poets than our team. We are still much too polite, much too "minimal" in our satire. "Embrace and extend" is the strategy. Behind the farce of course the movement of money and power is serious, stripping away our civil liberties, privatizing public goods, driving preemptive war to open markets, and risking environmental collapse. The air of normalcy in all this is bogus. The strain is getting too great to be igorned. It is an interesting time to be a writer, even of a blog, much less a peripatetic teacher. Thinking is not what people want to do, they want to find a shell of cliches and snarky gestures and to retreat into their idiot-consensus. All my life that has been what I have seen, and worked against as a teacher, and worked for as a marketer, for that matter, but I have never seen minds so ruined and addled, so unreachable."
Listen!
"Don't talk back
Just drive the car
Shut your mouth
I know what you are
Don't say nothing
Keep your hands on the wheel
Don't turn around
This is for real
digging in the dirt..." ~ Peter Gabriel
Digging in the Dirt. So many will not dig. What to do if they won't dig? What if they won't get dirty with dirt? What to do if they don't want to get dirty with their own vomit? Got to dig your own dirt.
More comments at that topic: Listen! Tutor writes:
- "I feel we are looking at the tree leaves and not the tree or the roots or the soil. We are the soil from which something new might grow"
And some more:
- "What we can do is to develop modes of discourse that are mutations of the deeper traditions of our culture, Athens and Jerusalem, with some postmoderns mixed in. It has to start with a coherent viewpoint and a way to make it stick against the memes and hitmen of the right"
and some more:
"Point being, our Dumpster is on Stage. The lights come up, the microphones are dialed up, and our words to one another are overheard as they should be. We do have something to say as a group, and we are doing more than just recycling the memes of discontent, we are exploring the resources that can be mustered in our literary, philosophical, religious, and yes financial traditions to take democracy back, or at least properly mourn its passing"
This blog entry has no point. It points to some points. Go explore the points. Be a bit more reachable.
and some more from Tutor:
"I do not have a moral or political theory, but I do ave the theory that we are all moral actors and that each of us paints his or her own moral portrait in every word and gesture. Thus by 'reading' our political actors as if they were characters in a play, we can do more than deconstruct or mock or scorn, we can point a moral"
