“[The film] offers no discourse, no practice, no options, no alternatives” Richard Brody.
Abolition is the only solution–a list via Verso.
Athena
Author: dig
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TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE
waz the beginnin uv reality for me
([lady in brown] “de library waz right down from de trolly tracks”, Ntozake Shange)
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the search for one’s own space, for respect, for love, for bliss—in short, paradise (TM).
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difficult always, […] earn—by practice and careful contemplation—the right to express it and […] learn how to accept it (TM)
live the role–a trick
… live where words have no leverage—I’ve a pile
of words.
… slipped off into his dream of choice … each detail was a jolt of pleasure
TM
All wisdom is afterthought
Seriously: All wisdom / is afterthought, a sort of helpless relief.
“All wisdom comes from memory” – Greer (Jack Ryan s3e1)
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Orwell’s Roses, Rebecca Solnit on Radio Open Source. This show first aired on November 11, 2021.
20:17 … he listens to a bird singing, and loves the fact that the bird is singing for no utilitarian purpose. Inutility is itself a kind of resistance this utilitarianism of an authoritarian state.
21:35 … Orwell is using the metaphor of the rose to make a point. And it’s a remainder that all that time in the natural world gives him and gives any of us metaphors, allegories, frameworks to understand the world around us. I often feel we’re really bereft without that metaphorical richness we get from the physical, spatial, and natural worlds.
By dint of hammer-song he makes his keen,
Raw point, and crowns utility with rose
The Rosehead Nail by A.E. Stallings