Sunday, July 22, 2007

pootang

one of the greatest disappointments with certain things in life is the inability to possess the things you would like to grab and cram into your pocket. If it so happens that the thing you would like belongs to another, then it becomes extremely logical to take up an anarchist point of view and get rid of all legitimizing sources of structure and authority that allow for this atrocious behavior of possession to continue, only for as long as it takes for you to possess that is. Then you can restore legitimizing systems much more in favor with the greater good.

But there is one other way of doing it if it happens that what you wish to possess happens to have some form on an intellectual prowess. You ask them to join your revolution. Rather you coax and cajole them, you romanticize the revolt, you vilify the current order, you give allusion of utopia, and not the least, the assurance of freedom. But then what if you fail? What if staunch conservatism prevails? Well, then, there is but one solution...

2 Comments:

Blogger Grand Puba said...

http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2007/06/the_bhaktapur_kumari_a_living_goddess_of_1.html

Ha!

10:18 PM  
Blogger Bibeka said...

what's the good of cramming things in your pocket?

4:47 AM  

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