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i don't think there's a deus-ex-machina waiting in the wings to swoop in and straighten out the messed up story we made for ourselves for us. we have to do it. if we're not up for it, then probably yes, we'll slide into some boredom. like it seems alot of people live in now. can't get angry about what's happening around them because they feel like they've seen or heard everything and besides there's food to be had and beverages to be consumed and continuity to be maintained and who really wants to take on the responsibility of reorganizing how things work when continuity is just...so....there.
i think revolution is possible. nothing is given in advance. continuity is an illusion. discontinuity is an illusion. we make ourselves and we make the world---but from within parameters or constraints some of which we are aware of some of which we arent. but we, collective, do have that level of power if we choose to exercise it.
so i dunno. radically different options are possible. but it's hard to imagine people doing much to get there. particularly not in the depressing twilight of empire that we are living through. why bother reorganizing the social world when there's so much packaged fantasy that's right there?
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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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