Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.61.0412010351360.1673@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Freedom's just another word for some place to abuse.
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 03:51:44 -0500 (EST)
Freedom's just another word for some place to abuse. I can't stand it at this point. This is rant. I'm sick and tired of debates. I'm sick and tired of hair-splitting. I find myself hating the word 'Christian' and everything it stands for. We Jews should have killed ourselves off; instead, we channeled virulent monotheisms of all stripes, holocausts without number. We let others do it and do it to us. We do it to ourselves and others. I hate the word 'pro-life' and everything it stands for - while children around the world are starving and it's going to get worse. I'm tired of reasoning against the monolith. Most of all I hate the word 'freedom' which is a dirty word for everything we want to do around the world. 'Freedom fries'? You bet - it exposes our intolerance of anyone daring to disagree with us. I've been using the word 'fascism' recently; I've always avoided it the past. I see our situation similar to Karl Kraus' - including the weakening of the dollar, new levels of mass communication and discourse networks, silent organizations of disparate groups like the Freikorps into a right-wing mass. Don't take it seriously! Satire works wonders. I find Bush a blunt ideologue, one whose violence will ultimately take the world down. If not Bush, someone else, but the guise is the same, and as mass communications and populations increase, others equally or far more violent will come along. Fundamentalisms of all sorts can only take over in a world of such leaky information flow that the poor are sent to the Pale, unrepresented, polluted. If I were Pale-poor I would join my masters to fight their masters. O the righteous fight. Simulacra return with a vengeance in the face of weapons of mass destruction - and you know what? These weapons smash ontology in the face. No longer the world of everyday things - but the world of silent, invisible, and absent killers, hidden regimes of information, nuclear and other radiations, invisible viral plagues - all plasma, seepage - what I've been on about for years. Give me a medal. I can't master my hatred. I turn it against myself. It's so good for you. I'm harmless. I'll eat my own flesh. But let me ask you: If you could kill a world leader - without repercussion - anyone you found criminal or ultra-violent, a Bin Laden or Hussein - if you could do this without any recrimination, as if by magic, would you? Would you pray for the death of a criminal if you believed in prayer? If a criminal and a leader were one and they were prayed to death, I sure wouldn't want to make an example of them because then we'd have another Christ to contend with. One, two, a million, Christs, Meshiachs, Messiahs, Holinesses, grave-diggers, grave-robbers, undead all. Deliverance of kindness ends up at the wrong end of a gun. The Christ of the sermon-mount has all but disappeared. Whatever happened to liberation theology? Marx and decon are now dirty words and sooner or later someone will bring up Jew Derrida, Jew Levi-Strauss, all those intellectuals, and the problems they made for Jew-Marx, Lyotard, Heidegger, all those others. Return of the killers, killers back at you. We're there waiting for them. We'll contribute with the book, one, two, a million books. We'll theorize them to hell and back. We'll show them. We'll show them pictures. We'll talk that forbidden subject, biology. We'll ignore the hatreds, poisons, in our systems, our genetic cess-pools, our desire repeatedly to bring the world down around us for a filthy grasp at heaven. We'll stab science in the back as intelligence creationism and arguments about life-tissue send the world environment teetering towards extinction of pretty much everything around us. Not much time till armageddon (without capital), slow and dirty. You can't argue with biology, man. You can't argue with biology, baby. Who twists our necks? We twist our necks. Who twists our necks? We twist our necks. Freedom's just another word for someone to abuse. _