We the people of the United States, in order . . . " yes, order. Order is the single rule of operation for any State, whether French, American, or Iranian; fascist, communist, Islamist; it does not matter. Third world dictatorships or totalitarian regimes are not the only kinds of governments concerned for regulating its citizens and … Continue reading In Itself American: Alpha
Help! Help! Help! {Flash Fiction}
A comment to an entry in a blog of a website dedicated to political commentary. Why we continue to hope against hope, judging black men by a different set of standards than we do others . . . one extreme to another. Obama has proven no less corrupt than any other white politician has been. … Continue reading Help! Help! Help! {Flash Fiction}
Obama and W.
And we imagine that the two are diametrically opposed, that they represent ideologically mutually exclusive political positions. They are flip-sides of the same coin; one political minting.
To Essay Civilization
The advance of literacy is collateral with the best advances in civilization. We have lost just how much writing is wound up in the advances of civilization . . . the pen, not the sword or the gun. Montaigne, anyone. His essays . . . Les Essais . . ., essayer in French means to try, to test … Continue reading To Essay Civilization
Irony?
Existentialism
I am not this, nor am I that; I am.
Existence precedes essence? Existentialism.
I am engaged? Existentialism. I am who I am as I am when I am where I am whatever I am, I; not categories, not man a member of men, not American, one of the Americans, not straight, not Catholic, but I in itself I as I am I.
The freedom of humanity lies in me? Existentialism. I am that I am an individual with existence and in as much as that is true I am responsible for the freedom of the world because I am responsible for the freedom of myself.
I am we the people for if I am not, then there is no one who can be we the people, and if we is only all of us, this all of us is never summed, never reachable. There would never be now a we the people.
Existentialism. Yes, existence precedes essence. Categories…
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Rodin
ph9110g.jpg. You know the photo for this sight is Rodin's Balzac by Stieglitz. via ph9110g.jpg.
Amy’s Back . . .
Do I need to add?
Irony
The Literary Essay . . . what can I say? I imagine I would have to explain this–define my terms–even to the University educated. Tweeting is not writing.
It is not an irony that Kierkegaard and Hamlet are both Danes. It’s a coincidence, for sure. Coincidences are neither big nor small; they just are.
What is ironic? What is irony? Do we teach it anymore, how to have a sense of it, how to find it, see it when it stares us in the face? Are ironies either simple or supreme, and if they can be either one, can they be anything in between? What lies between? I’ve said before how interesting it is that the between aids and abets lying.
Is it ironic that Kierkegaard and Hamlet are both Danes? I wouldn’t know what to say about this. Danish society lending itself to suicide as no other in western society? I once heard, in a bar, at the bar, that the Danes kill themselves at a rate near the Japanese. I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean. I…
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Keeping the Poor in Fear
Free trade is a lie. Corporations only ever get together for Restraint of Trade.
Corporate Assault on Public Education
It's not in the interests of power that we be engaged, or that we think, or that we raise our literacy. Alphabetisme as the French call it is the best power can accept from education.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
VIVA MALALA
Truth is truth. It can appear anywhere, be revealed by anyone . . . and the children shall lead.
Sunday Spotlight: Malala Yousafzai http://t.co/xwEwxchACs via @abc
— The Revue (@revuerevuerevue) July 16, 2013
Irony
Reveal yourself in your choices.
Soul & Anti-Soul
A new political metaphysics.
The soul of the people and the anti-soul of the governmental administrators are mutually exclusive entities metaphysically as well as being antagonistic players in any drama performed physically in society. They share little to nothing in common, cannot endure for long the existence of the other. They are as close to matter and anti-matter in physics as any two things could be.
Politicians as we know them today, inside any sense of democracy anyone might hold in whatever variety that has been possible throughout history, are not interested in the advancement of literacy, no. Advanced literacy is not even favorable for any serious political campaign, and that’s serious about getting elected. Even a campaign as seemingly mostly about ideas as was Barack Obama’s, an elevated literacy was not the prime question–the populus was never to read his speeches, but listen to the ringing oratory in his phrases, the rhythm of his…
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Spy, Spying, Spied
To spy or not to spy must be a question for some who have reason to believe that their need to find out exceeds another's right to privacy. As voyeuristic as we have become--and the world is just a series of key holes, from one to another crouching like a humunculus with left or right … Continue reading Spy, Spying, Spied
The Absurd
The Absurd. via The Absurd.
Archipelago
The world is fast becoming one kind, even if we have yet to raise our ethical consciousness to the level where we can see clearly the oneness of our human kinship. Yet, the scarriest thing I noted in Paris the last time I was there was how much like everywhere else even Paris is becoming. Every city in the world an island in the American Bourgeois Capitalist Archipelago, a chain of Post-post Modernist American Islands in a sea of everywhere else.
Politics and Religion
Politics and Religion. via Politics and Religion.
Israel & Colonialism
Israel & Colonialism. How can any academic assert that we are living in the post-colonial world when Israel is European Colonialism? Post-Colonial? Any history of colonialism must address the continuation of this history in Israel. Power is sophisticated enough today to understand that violence in itself as brutality, brutality as violence is not going to … Continue reading Israel & Colonialism
The Annihilation of the People is Coming
Soul & Anti-Soul. The soul and anti-soul of our politics. Matter and anti-matter in physics. The people and the public measured diametrically. The state is the mortal enemy of every good impulse in a person. via Soul & Anti-Soul.
Archipelago
Archipelago. via Archipelago.
Tongue in Cheek
Tongue in Cheek. via Tongue in Cheek.
Long Between
Long Between. via Long Between.
The Met Council on Jewish Poverty
The Met Council on Jewish Poverty. via The Met Council on Jewish Poverty.
Senator Carl Levin Says Goldman’s Blankfein Tried to Mislead Congress
Senator Carl Levin Says Goldman's Blankfein Tried to Mislead Congress. via Senator Carl Levin Says Goldman's Blankfein Tried to Mislead Congress.
Open the Windows
Women, Pendulums and Curtain Rods. We have little idea what we are talking about when the issue of abortion rights is raised in the media. Our emotionalism is grotesque. Intelligence leaves the platform because we are actually too semi-literate to discuss this intelligently, which is always a way to think and feel symbiotically. And … Continue reading Open the Windows
Obama, Bloomberg and Minstrel Shows for the Rich
Obama, Bloomberg and Minstrel Shows for the Rich. via Obama, Bloomberg and Minstrel Shows for the Rich.
9/11 and the Ludovico Media
9/11 and the Ludovico Media. via 9/11 and the Ludovico Media.
Geitner’s Ghouls from Goldman Sachs and the Impure Blood
Geitner's Ghouls from Goldman Sachs and the Impure Blood. via Geitner's Ghouls from Goldman Sachs and the Impure Blood.
Bought and Paid For [Flash Fiction]
He remembers what a friend told him word for word which some of you may find very hard ton believe considering what we are talking about that was said was said so long ago, no one should be able to recollect it word for word, except that some have said, after he has said what … Continue reading Bought and Paid For [Flash Fiction]
One Born Every Minute [Fiction; revised post Trump]
. I don't expect other from any President--=whose President, what President? The President of any City Library, of any corporation not in the private sector, of any government anywhere, any-when? What should anyone expect from anyone in any position of governmental authority, especially the President of the United States, an office more circumscribed by Power … Continue reading One Born Every Minute [Fiction; revised post Trump]
Presidential Presidents
Presidential Presidents. via Presidential Presidents.
I Am and other Macrocosms
The French were never freer than during the Nazis occupation, or so this hypothesis is presented by Jean Paul Sartre in his short essay, "The Republic of Silence," where the French Heideggerean existentialist philosopher--does anyone say Heideggerean? I know we still read Heidegger, even if only because we are sure it will help us to understand … Continue reading I Am and other Macrocosms
Presidential Presidents
Every day the same as every other day. Every day different from every other before to come. Who will bear change, is it possible to change? Will is not something we manage except in the Public good, the Public will; The State always contrary to the very best in me. We the people weighty enough to counterbalance state? The State always rewards you for abdicating your popularity in favor of publicity, publicity only the marketing … Continue reading Presidential Presidents
The Falling Leaf Review 