Dear Humanity,
Please address the empire of civilization, the refusal, and the critical theory of society. Ideas, yield Words, demand action, and those who have given their lives, their actual bodies and true spirits, their minds and faces, to the Great Refusal, walking the streets right now, lurking as an underclass, building stadia for the rich and the rich get richer and soak the rich!
Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
Love,
Precarious Birch (Three of Nine Lives)
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Jump into C.L.R. James and his take on Moby Dick, in Renegades, and read the bandits, the workers, the drunks of alternative histories of The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea, and know the necessities of alternative visions, of anti-histories. “Underneath the conservative popular base is the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, the exploited and persecuted of other races and other colors, the unemployed and the unemployable. They exist outside the democratic process; their life is the most immediate and the most real need of rending intolerable conditions and institutions. Thus their opposition is revolutionary even if their consciousness is not. Their opposition hits the system from without and is therefore not deflected by the system; it is an elementary force which violates the rules of the game and, in doing so, reveals it as a rigged game. When they get together and go out into the streets, without arms, without protection, in order to ask for the most primitive civil rights, they know that they face dogs, stones, and bombs, jail, concentration camps, even death. Their force is behind every political demonstration for the victims of law and order.” Oh. My. God. To hit like that in once lifetime, to see the thing, and call it out by name. This is a revolutionary Conclusion, this a wild and treasonous paragraph, these the Words of rebellion, already under way. Marcuse and the entire Frankfurt School, and your friend you know who do the same, and your books and your inspirations, as serious and as literal as one can phrase it, are the voices of revolution, they are revolutionary teachers, and they teach shattering the system. And why. There is no other way to look at it. The voice is all, the Word, God. The struggle for the solution. And, the rigged game. Just Look at what civil rights activists went through and endured. The resistance obvious, as a resistance. Leaders killed, right under our noses, in front of our eyes, and we treat it as a story, a now-happy story. But we don’t stare at the Reaction. We don’t see lynchings for the real, beyond empathy, to revolutionary outrage. And a declaration of war. Against the evil sinners who say they lead. Look what Martin Luther King had to do and therefore did. And what happened in consequence. What social and political noise. What a clearly-defined reaction. And a man becomes a martyr. And now, those people who hold to power maintain those same segregationist and white supremacist ways. “Their force is behind every political demonstration for the victims of law and order. The fact that they start refusing to play the game may be the fact which marks the beginning of the end of a period.”
And refuse to play the game. Refuse the game. The Master’s Game is not our game. We fight against their lies. And we shall witness the end of their dominant rule. “Nothing indicates that it will be a good end. The economic and technical capabilities of the established societies are sufficiently vast to allow for adjustments and concessions to the underdog, and their armed forces sufficiently trained and equipped to take care of emergency situations. However, the specter is there again, inside and outside the frontiers of the advanced societies. The facile historical parallel with the barbarians threatening the empire of civilization prejudges the issue; the second period of barbarism may well be the continued empire of civilization itself. But the chance is that, in this period, the historical extremes may meet again: the most advanced consciousness of humanity, and its most exploited force. It is nothing but a chance. The critical theory of society possesses no concepts which could bridge the gap between the present and its future; holding no promise and showing no success, it remains negative. Thus it wants to remain loyal to those who, witout hope, have given and give their life to the Great Refusal.” Dude, this is an identification of Jah Army, of the anti-establishment legions who always follow their new true voice, and resist the call of privatized oxygen. Babylon and the Great Refusal.
Babylon and the Great Refusal expressed a hundred thousand ways. Let us chronicle them all. Let’s sing to the current heavens. And battle the devils of depravity and political sin. Marcuse ends with Walter Benjamin. Which mean, yes, we have to read Benjamin. You do, hipsters! You do those who come up from the youth ranks! And me too, to write up the books introduced by a community of scholars and we’re thankful forever for that introduction, and that new direction. “At the beginning of the fascist era, Walter Benjamin wrote: Our um Der Hoffnunglosen willed its ups die Hoffnung geg eben. “It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.” Hope and the warriors of the Great Refusal. Yes, call for the Refusal after setting up Why, in a clear expression of a regime of thought, vitally expressed and intellectually ripped, sophisticated, earnest, and radical. To call for this refusal, state the terms for why, and then remind those who Hear of the hope in our hearts and the people who don’t have hope, who live in the slums of our world margins, of real people, forgotten by most. And certainly Davos and empires and Brexiteers. Dear Humanity, please address the empire of civilization, the refusal, and the critical theory of society. Ideas, yield Words, demand action, and those who have given their lives, their actual bodies and true spirits, their minds and faces, to the Great Refusal, walking the streets right now, lurking as an underclass, building stadia for the rich and the rich get richer and soak the rich!