Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:12:16 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: mitravaruna



ariosto, 

nietzsche's distance:  wedging open a monotonous and self-content culture,
insisting on the distance of the mountains above the city, the distance of
nobility, the distance between dionysius and apollo.  here too something
is smashed open.

capitalism never completely replaces earlier system, but yet dares to
forget them.  what a great project the forgetting has been of that time,
still now, when 'infernal' machines, war machines, battles of gods, raged.

we are getting a layout of thought, like in one of foucault's books.  a
kind of traditional necessity to conceive, to organize, along certain
lines.  

romulus isn't quite the foundational sacrifice, the one we are all guilty
of who belong to the community.  roma is too proud of him, its
underbelly begging to be opened up, to wriggle free again, languishing now
in the stale institutions, and under a banal internationalism.

violence, cleansing violence.  fascism uses this energy, and yet does not
follow it properly, so they say.  in order to keep a kind of anti-fascism
in mind, we speak of a proper violence.  the hope that revolution will
take care of its own results.  this just warrior.  and the divisions that
are his condition of possibility, or that shape that he splits his society
into.

i don't know, you know.  do you get any of this (from the text)?  how does
it read to you?  

marcus.