Can we have a revolution now please?
Exhibit B:
k-punk is right, of course, that the election is Big Brother for the ‘political classes’. Unfortunately, the election is both more boring and more distracting than reality TV — which makes sense, thinking of Žižek’s claim that Big Brother is a particularly clever piece of consumer electronics, which we can set up to be bored on our behalf. Be that as it may, the way the election has rendered political discourse even more content free is doing may head in. It’s a fine example of why we should replace bourgeois democracy with something better.
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A revolution for What? To replace the yoke of one master with that of another? Freedom, if atainable, in its Absolute form is as much of a master as any other. Free from what, anyway? I think we ought to take Max Stirner’s suggestion and find the Self’s Owness rather that loose outselves in political projects.
… or maybe you were just trying to find a non-banal way of introducing those 2 links :)
Comment by Gabriel Mihalache @ 4/24/2005 9:29 pm
fuck stirnerite capitalist anarchism.
Comment by geo @ 4/24/2005 10:27 pm
Well, I just trying something out… I’m not married to it/him! :-)
Comment by Gabriel Mihalache @ 4/25/2005 5:50 am
‘There’s a crackle in the air: it’s infused with a burning charge. In a funny way, at last, democracy itself is winning the argument. This weekend will be the one. ‘
Comment by oliver craner @ 4/27/2005 10:04 am