| Re: OUT WITH THEM ALL! - The Portland Surrealists' A21 Statement |
Posted via Supernews, ht .. |
| Dale Houstman (dmh7@citilink.com) |
2003/08/23 00:35 |
elag wrote:
> Brandon Freels wrote:
>
>>>Would you cats be willing to vote strategically against Bush... opting
>>>for the lesser evil? Or will y'all be boycotting on principle?
>>
>>I can't see myself voting, even "strategically" for a lesser evil.
>>Doing so would only dissolve any revolutionary momentum. I tend to
>>feel that for there to be any radical change there must be some kind
>>of visible political nemesis -- like Bush. Republicans fit this role
>>well. Democrats tend to become invisible or illusionary, even though
>>there is little difference between the two parties and their
>>intentions.
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks for taking the time to answer. I was just curious where your
> hatred of Bush (which I share) might lead.
>
>
Calling it a "hatred of Bush" misstates the position: it isn't about
this or that political mannikin, but about a solidified culture of
power, in which people like Bush are merely embedded as a sort of "this
month's new flavor." We are expected to take seriously the idea that the
spectrum of "problems/solutions" we see staged in the political arena
represents a wide field of choice, when actually the angle is rather
depleted. Bush's actions and presence often revolts me, but mainly I see
him as another piece of black humor, merely installed so as to muddy the
already muddy waters of social cognition; he is merely filling a niche
that needs filling so as to appear democratic, when - in fact - our
lives have been bought and paid for in boardrooms we'll never see or
hear of. Hating him is no less pointless than hating God, as mad as
despising Santa Claus: Bush - insofar as he is inhabiting the true
demands of his "role" simply doesn't exist. The next president - no
matter whom that might be - will be equally irrelevant to the "hidden in
plain sight" forces which actually buy and sell history. One wastes
effort (as is expected) either "admiring" or "disdaining" these mostly
interchangeable "things." Something more important and stronger and more
persistent is going on behind that distraction, and the day more people
stop pretending we are living in a democracy is the day another sort of
revolution will burst through all this trivial facing and get at the
real throats with a real knife.
dmh
|
|
|