ugly citizens
I’m in a fed up mood. I mean that in the most pleasurably drunk in the middle of the night way, but nonetheless, I’m fed up my dear friends. It is not such a bad idea to think historically about ones one situation nor is it a bad idea, particularly when one holds such smart and delightful friends as I (and you), to consider oneself as more than a bit part on history’s stage. My friends, we are called upon to enact our part on our limited time here! yes, action is called for.
But what type of action?
Oh, for gods sake it’s more simple than that. Action of any kinds will do for now. Calisthenics on a social level will do. First of all, lets make it a plan to do things that mean something to us and to aggressively confront power on a personal level. I mean if everyone one of us bumped into rich people in one week, if we just snuck out of our homes and let the air out of the tires out of some irresponsible shmuck’s car, well, we would be at the very least activating our own personal form of historic calisthenics. We must be aggresive. AGGRESSIVE! And unapologetic. Just irresonsibly flex your social muscle, it’s happening against a world you believe in every day.
Then there is this other thing:
what does it mean to act historically? I really am down on it all. Why did shit get so bad after Bush? It’s so strange isn’t it? You would have thought that would have been the last gasp but in fact, it was a refreshing breath for the asthmatic right wing. you could feel them catching their breath and hitting their stride as you crouched under your theory books. God, what a mess.
I know I sound marginally mad. I kind of am. I am admittedly frustrated. I had a young graduate student talk to me about where the movement in the US is today. I had to just look at her blankly and think: “You tell me!” Fuck if I know.
I always feel like we are just not accelerated to the new techniques that must be acquired to resist the culture industry. All creativity must come under question. I was on a panel this last weekend, and I was positing that maybe, just maybe, the growth of creativity was a bad thing. That under the new culture of the service industry, we are all absolutely narcissistic and delusional enough to think that our own creativity is enough to make us valuable in the fight for progressive somethingorother. But in fact, our own creativity is a result of bulshitt market capitalism taking us for a ride. Want a ride? think of a new invaluable idea! god, what we really just need is a form of daily practice that makes us confront a not-so-complicated world of dominating power.
We overvalue our ideas and don’t simply just get to it, and kick the shit out of the rich. I mean, why call it capitalism? Isn’t feudalism a resonable model? Just a few daily visits to the owners of our individual towns might do far more than regular posts, wouldn’t you say?
Lets make things tangible. Lets hold them in our hands. Lets seduce them They are people. They are lost. Lets take their breath away.
