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that's hilarious.
"eternal persistant values" is the kind of phrase that only appeals to the religious--if you have a religious commitment to the signifier nation, it makes you kinda dangerous politically--that kind of attitude informs lovely texts like junger's storm of steel and other such speculations about a wholesome unified and eternal fatherland that brought all of us such a delightful period in the last century.
that kind of relation has nothing to do with the political framework that these same founders set into motion,. where debate about matters of import was assumed as a sign of the healthy functioning of that system.... that debate would include the meaning of the idea of nation, the relation of that idea to shifting historical conditions....the debates undertaken by the people who set this system up were never understood as resolving the matters once and for all--the same questions persist, should be talked about, should be debated continually. if they really thought in the way their contemporary worshippers imagine they did, there would be no precedent-based legal system, no provision for change and adaptation written into the heart of the conception of law....
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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