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if there is an ethical imperative it would apply only to myself--everything else is argument.if you find the argument compelling, then maybe it would function to enjoin actions: if you do not, it is a rhetorical tic.
as for acceptance of the role of economic forces--well, analytically there is no way around it. in terms of how i live my life, the question is obviously more complex. for what i was talking about above, obviously the situation is particular.
making the argument that the central terms--like efficiency, like cost--are political does not require an action. what it does do (i think) is chip away at simply treating those terms as if they were neutral. that is an agenda of mine. i see no reason to apologize for it, and have no problem with saying it outright.
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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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