5 Jan 2012

On A Discussion Concerning "Dehumanisation" #3: IT MAY NOT LOOK LIKE MUCH NOW, BUT IT'S THE ONLY DAMN REVOLUTION WE GOT

PART I: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

But first [and by popular demand!] let us pray:
[and] the LORD said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the [kingdom of Heaven] is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If your leaders say to you, 'the [kingdom of Heaven] is in the sea,' then the fish of the sea will precede you. Rather, the [kingdom of Heaven] is inside of you and outside of you. When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are the children of the living God. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."

Gospel of Didymos [Judas] Thomas, arrogantly abridged by me.

PART II: ON A DISCUSSION CONCERNING "DEHUMANISATION"

notes towards an investigation
also: a poem


sir! sir! we don't know where we are, sir!
everywhere rubbish piled up ready for burning


the oil-smear sheen of your civilization makes us feel dizzy


we don't know why your "progress" feels like our "destruction" feels like our >destruction<


sir! sir! can you make us famous, sir?


 sir, sir, can you give us food, sir?


PART III: IT MAY NOT LOOK LIKE MUCH NOW, BUT IT'S THE ONLY DAMN REVOLUTION WE GOT

Human kind still lives in prehistory everywhere, indeed everything awaits the creation of the world as a genuine one. The real genesis is not at the beginning but at the end, and it only begins when society and existence become radical, that is, grasp themselves at the root. The root of history, however, is the human being [...] if human beings have grasped themselves, and what is theirs, without depersonalization and alienation, founded in real democracy, then something comes into being in the world that shines into everyone's childhood and where no one has yet been -- home.

Ernst Bloch; Das Prinzip Hoffnung [arrogantly abridged and italicised by me.]


Try to dig what I'm laying down:

1] On A Discussion Concerning "Dehumanisation"*
2] On A Discussion Concerning "Dehumanisation" #2: What I Wish I'd Said 
3] I [really] Couldn't Have Put It Better Myself [ghostpost by Dr. Wooooo circa 2007]

BONUS!


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