While I worry about our future, too, I still ask: who is the enemy anyways? and what do we win in this escalation of death and debt? Victory may seem to cover irreparable loss – even if another bears the cost – but is war really just a game to be played like any other?
Monthly Archives: September 2014
On Writing, Critique and Audience
I don’t want my writing to merely become a stale indictment of my frustrated being in this place and unequivocal evidence of the fact that I feel poorly adjusted: I want to explore and think and test out and adventure and develop as a thinker, critic and writer. To this end, I feel I should hold letters to the editor to once a month in order to prevent my critiques from becoming too expected, unnovel and irritating to the general public.
Origins of An Organizer
It is a trend of the spectacle to fixate on a handful of individuals (possibly) in order to displace an explanation which suggests far greater participation in such activity or merely for the purposes of commercial and political concision, relegating those who do not cleanly fit the bill to official and written and archived historical oblivion.
Moreover, it’s not just with his rise in notoriety that we begin to care further about the position of those who work to solidify, furnish and fabricate necessary community relationships within, inside of and between different local, regional and global communities, but with a more broadly felt sense that, perhaps the way that we’ve created this world – as result of the structures of political economy that predominate and are routinely reproduced – has directly resulted in the absolute demolition of community, or at least the production of a false or hollow sense of it that systematically fails to provide that which we hope to produce.
That we have people paid to fix, arrange and produce Community says so much about the tragic state of the world, and, forebodingly, a lot less about what we might actually be able to do to go about changing it.