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i think that there is something other than seasonal factors and the disappearance of the cadre from the right for me at least--i wondered about what it is exactly as i decided to post this kind of thread rather than simply putting up something about, say, the baker report and/or the new rounds of lunacy in and around iraq.
but i am not sure what it is, this something other.
i found myself repeating myself here more than i would like, as if roachboy had become a little machine and that machine developed characteristics and began preforming its characteristics as much or more than exploring new avenues for thinking about stuff in the world.
maybe this is a function of the non-cumulative nature of debates in this kind of space.
maybe it is a reflection of these degenerate ideological times.
maybe it is a limitation of messageboards as forms.
maybe all the above.
maybe it is also a function of the strange state of my personal 3-d land--but it is odd to think that others may find themselves in parallel 3-d lands, with parallel features. i cant tell if i am simply projecting, but there seems a kind of malaise abroad out there, a kind of thickness in the air that slows you down if you think with a wide compass, makes it feel difficult to move your focus like there is some weight you work from under.
but the worlds, mine and the big one, feel like they are drifting, and drifting does not necessarily make for good commentary, it just is, in a kind of bland, grey way, what it is.
and within that, the machinery of argumentation shaped by the machinery of repetition doesnt seem a generative as it has in the past.
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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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