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sometimes it seems that ignorance is understood in the states as a fundamental human right. you could say that the states finds itself in the trouble it's currently experiencing in part because the ideological backdrop against which arguments concerning the world gets formulated is rigid, one-dimensional and naturalized. the way "history" is presented in public school is of a piece with the larger tendency to conflate existing political arrangements with nature--it's where the logic gets rehearsed.
fantasy is seamless: it follows that folk would prefer it.
but maybe relativizing the past. dealing with ambiguity and/or problems, is a privilege of fading empire.
we'll soon find out.
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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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