Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:20:37 -0500 From: hugh bone <hbone-AT-optonline.net> Subject: Re: Philosophy and Political Action Eric wrote: > starcrossed crossroad >where desire becomes event >and mourning becomes eclectic >the rosy fingers > of a postmodern dawn T.S. Eliot is supposed to have said that immature writers imitate; mature writers steal Takes chutzpah to go for Shakespeare, O'Neil and Homer in five lines. let us dream gods who dream worlds of people dreaming gods ad infinitum Let us dream economic systems born of communities of worker-owners of rights to all properties, they use, produce, inhabit all workers voters by law 6 candidates for House and Senate selected by lottery as with juries winning candidates picked by incumbent Senators of adjacent States winning candidates for the House picked by House members of adjacent districts Both House and Senate serve 6 years, then OUT one-third elected every 2 years the President also, 6 years then OUT 4 candidates selected one each by House, Senate, Supremes and Council of Governors of all States a six-week campaign runoffs if needed for majority etc. etc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > hugh bone wrote: > > > Issues and interests and discussions are easy - a "thousand points" of >light without the organization and focus to change consciousness or >stimulate action by the oppressed. > > I say let there be a 1001 points of differends > Let us become the underground midnight thoughts > Of a shining city on a hill > > Let our politics be > not electoral > not grass roots > not proletarian > not demonstrations in the street > (although all of these at times may prove necessary) > > Let our politics be found instead > in the life that attempts to live > outside the Western box > even as it recognises > that this is impossible > > As transgressive violets > indolently grow > in the cracks of the concrete > to persist in their compulsive beauty > beyond all oblivion > > Pockets of autonomy > filled with resistance > some loose change > and accursed pleasure > > jubilee > festival > carnival > equinox > pagan time > > to put an end > to time > the time of work > the time of waiting > the time that others own > the time of their domination > where others accumulate > that which is ours > > between our desires > and what is permitted > there must be eternal war > ambiguity violence metaphor > and insurrection > > my life is in my politics > my politics is in my life > > this present joy > inaugurates all > possible revolutions > and points to the > starcrossed crossroad > where desire becomes event > and mourning becomes eclectic > the rosy fingers > of a postmodern dawn > >
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