Navel gazing is good. It is a good opportunity to think about your intestines.
It is a good opportunity to say, What was G-d thinking when he dug these tunnels inside our bodies! They are so marvelous and strange!
It is a good opportunity to say, This world is really awful! But I have intestines!
And With History
Doleful virtue sung measured breasts
Unadorned with armor
Lengthened as lengthened
The fasting and acrid
Pile as piled by boulders
As stones pushing men
There is the soldier
Who is not a child soldier
The whistled livid
Filled as such and sewn.
Q.
You seem to be saying that social managers should not think pro-revolutionary thoughts because by their nature such thoughts are counterrevolutionary.A.
I am not saying they should not think such thoughts but rather that they are the only sector of the capitalist community that is conditioned to produce pro-revolutionary consciousness. And that in itself should set alarm bells ringing. For this reason, social managers should rigourously question the immediate form their thoughts take. They should reject, as a matter of course, all the political proposals that just happen to occur to them.Q.
I want to return to the question of the doubled narrative that you identify in class struggle politics, where the discourse of normalisation is united with that of social revolution.A.
It is curiously perverse. We can identify here a spiral in which the transgressions associated with social revolution are, in themselves, transgressed against as a means of realising a discourse of normalcy.
Suicide is not a choice. If we must live as warrior monks, this is primarily expressed in longevity and endurance, as these are set within the circumstances of our difficulties. Our purpose is to resensitise ourselves and record experiences without recourse to any external justification or purpose but our recordings’ own sake. Recordings are an integral feature of the endurance of sensitivity.
