diary
… diarrhea …
diarrhy-ha
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everything begins in mysticism
and ends in politics
but ... everything begins
in politics and ends in mysticism
drama shifts from visible stages of society to invisible stages of
body, electrical surges in flesh (what technocapitalism calls neurological
issues) – a consequence of withdrawing from electrical surges of production :
loci of energy transplacing, rooting in soils of human molecular vermicology
evolution of mysticism –
… from purity’s skirmishes to purity’s dream
(here, an overlap with art)
… from a distant or estranged relationship
with institutional religion to institutional religion's irrelevance
… from emphases on lines (progression from
darkness through darkness to light) to circles (geometric orientations toward
centers and circumferences)
… from religious mysticism to aesthetic
mysticism
do we not seek a union – at least a constructive dialogue – between
mysticism and politics (rather than a crocodilian estrangement)?
we all are food. this that democracy
technocapitalism is a caste system. that there’s some mobility
between castes – as equally down as up (though the edges are further protected ... and almost everyone wants [tediously] to go up) – changes little. verticality is still respected
and dominates society (those up are envied, talked about, desired; those down
are despised, invisible, shunned, pitied); each caste tends to be an enclave to
itself with its own assistance networks, jokes, moralities, vulgarities,
hypocrisies …
the privilege of traveling among castes (living among them – not visiting and analyzing) relativizes, instilling doubts (remember montaigne and his cannibals?) about the received wisdoms and mores of any
specific tribe/caste or the systems in which they individually and collectively operate
a privilege not normally counted among privileges
a
question naturally arises – the human seems (in the ubiquity and enforcement of
the caste system) inextricable from the caste system – of the nature of the
human. when i question this – its totality, enforcements, methods – question
not from the authorized pedestal of questioning (the academy) but independently
(for the academy speaks complicitly within the system regardless of any
sympathies of any of its contents) i am shunned or dismissed as pathological,
misanthropic, insane, bitter, romantic (whimsical, utopian) ... not just from one tribe, but all of them, their codes of dismissal differing according to the respective tribe's grammar. yet each secretly corroborates with the others in their unspoken shared geometric assumptions
we severely limit our knowledge and
experience to get on
with our lives. we label that which is outside our
knowledge and experience (annoying, detrimental to us! gets in
our way of getting on!) with exclusionary pejorative labels. as a species we
limit what is most distinctive about us (vision, empathy), emphasizing instead
common elements (domination, avarice), using our distinctions primarily to
further subjugate, to become the hyperapex predators of the commons
