It's Sunday

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
(King James Version)

More words of wisdom from Stan Goff:

On education:

I’m still carrying a grudge about wasting 12 years of my life in a “democratic” institution called public school, where children — who should be exploring their own curiosity in a diverse world — are imprisoned and trained like lab rats, and segregated by age, creating one of the monstrosities of modernism — youth culture, a thing separate from the age-diverse world where they might learn something interesting and practical instead of memorizing test answers and saying the damned pledge [of] allegiance. Compulsory public school has, more than any other single thing, driven a wedge between generations and left our children vulnerable to the stupidity of their equally inexperienced peers and predatory advertising.

On democracy:

There’s a tendency to assume that if we share certain discernments about a situation, then we share an opinion about what ought to be done about it.

I abhor war, therefore I must also invest myself in the struggle to elect antiwar candidates, for example.

This is a non sequitur. I do not invest myself in these struggles, except where they are revelatory — deepening our discernments.

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Elections! The heart of democracy by some accounts.

If anyone has any evidence that elections in the US have shifted power from the ruling class, I’m all ears.

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Democracy makes us liars. Look at the grotesque apologetics deployed by “liberals” (I am emphatically not liberal! nor conservative! nor progressive!) to justify continuing support for the institutional cesspool called the Democratic Party. We stifle our basic powers of observation on behalf of a game that we never win and that never stops and that we never win and that never stops; and we would become like them if we did. We jump on the great hamster wheel of democracy, cycling through election after election, complaining about the things we have abandoned to management for this vanity, and blame those who say no to the wheel.

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My FB friends assume that I, like they, want to seek power — collectively, of course — to fix the things that other powerful people are allegedly responsible for. This point-of-view, that someone has to exercise power against power, is absolutely hegemonic.

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As long as we continue with the delusion that we need the state, or that we need to fight the state with the same kind of force the state uses, we will remain apart from what really matters: each other. Our mangerial society has placed a force-field of isolation around us all, and subsitututed rules and regulations for the bond between souls. Moreover, the modern managerial society has taken moral responsibility away from the individual, and thereby metastasized the lonely narcissism that infects modern society.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.