As Of Late
It has been building over the past few months, perhaps several. I sense myself becoming increasingly radicalized as I premise-check and assumption-suss. And I find myself growing ever more wary of capitalism’s productivity norms — “a system that asks me to give up my body/labor and otherizes me if i cannot” writes a queer hapa disability rights activist — and the reductive self-Therblig-izing that market norms perpetuate.
And I would totally write more on this, words equalling lux and whatnot, but I have to hit the ladies room. ZOINKS!
Posted by Anittah Patrick on
January 27, 2010
tags: humanism, inclusivity, socialism
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Help Me Rebrand Socialism?
I enjoyed a talk by Chris Hedges, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author of Empire of Illusion, yesterday evening. During the Q&A, he explained Socrates’ concerns about the book (Socrates was worried about the written word’s negative impact on society versus the oral tradition):
Striving for a moral life is ambiguous. It cannot be codified. It becomes orthodoxy when these discussions are written down.
Yes. Yes of the Stephen Carter “bumper sticker democracy is bad” variety.
His talk was so thought-provoking that I may have to noodle on a marketing campaign for socialism.
