went to see selma, it was very moving, made me proud and it took me back, to one incident in particular - when i got back to memphis from vietnam, I'm sitting there at my folks house alone, getting high & wondering what now - and mississippi james bevel (common in movie) came to my door all accusatory, talking about how he had heard that 'you and your daddy some of the smartest bougie in this town and i want to know what is your plan for blackfolks freedom' - i hemmed and hawed and blustered about how i wasnt going to just tell him my plan but i knew he saw right thru my bougie bullshit and i have ever since been trying to figure out (and implement) - just what is my plan for blackfolks freedom
SUNDAY
well im figuring out my problems one by one, was reading a trash western the other day
and realized it was page turning mystery because he had set up a life and death
confrontation between the primary forces and inexorably moved toward that confrontation
my confrontation takes place in one day between setup and climax, so i know how to fix that
one at least - interesting when you slogging thru narrative mud, your progress is so slow
and tortuous that it is only in hindsight (reading over manuscript) that you
realize that you are in indeed making progress, neglible though it be
okay, what do i have to say about the attacks in paris
im not sure what to say, radical islam is clearly not interested
in dialogue, which is where i like to play
and islam is entrenched in open societies
that would like to stay open, the question becomes does
islam adjust or do the socities adjust, radical islam and
rightwing christanity are diff only in % far as im concerned
both want the rest of us to live according to their restricted
dogma (for that matter i will include radical judaism/hinduism and
radical buddhism that is ethnic cleansing muslims in myanmar/burma
fundamentalism of any stripe is problematic to my way of thinking but that doesnt really address
the issue of islamic terrorism, howard dean said the paris thing
has nothing to do with islamic terrorism, which was just plain
silly but it captures the challenge of countering islamic terrorism
without marginalizing your islamic population, which just breeds
more of the same - but being afraid to call islamic terrorism what it is is not
helpful, i dont think, you have to stay firmly based in the reality community
i think of how the 60s folk repressed armed black militancy, thru questionable means
in order to channel black militancy into the ideological battle of interests that
define democratic society, my game against yours, may the best game win
other day i was reading where ferguson protest leaders went to palestine
found article intersting on many levels, mentions some protests orgs/leaders
that have come out of ferguson activism, for a cultural orchestrator who like
to keep his finger on the pulse of struggle that was good intel - also intersting was the
palestinian activist who set it up because the afroam struggle was an inspiration to him
nice to see our struggle inspiring struggle around the world again
instead of the contemporary global trope of afroam gangsterism
but i have often wondered what would happen if the palestinians did
the civil resistance thing hardcore, i got to assume its been part of their strategic posture
but what if it was so hardcore that the palestinians within isreal demanded their rights too
of course the nonviolence strategy depends on your opposition, worked in us, but not i think in
south africa and the jews of isreal have been so coarsened by terror attacks and the ongoing
occupation of the palestinians
that i dont know how they would respond, i suspect they would bring the hammer down
but that would horiify the oldschool jews who like to think of themselves still
as a righteous people and a righteous culture, i have gotten much too twisty here
intead of leading to a clarify i seem ot be digging the hole deeper, its a complex
moment in the struggle, the ongoing struggle to enhance the human condition
and alleviate human suffering, to be always greater than we are
i once heard issues of the human condition referred
to as the battle that cant be won but must be fought
ima cut this short, i got work to do
all my love
rdoc
THURS (I GUESS)
this been a struggle dear regulators
this been one of the hardest drafts ever
i got waht i got but what i got aint sufficient, pages and pages of
frustration that i got to make stronger, no concrete goals, just stronger
so im reading thru and and just embellishing sections, working w/structure
im not sure what im doing, dear regulators, mostly im just being
discursive, motor mouthing away, later in draft i will be working
the suspense, page turning (hopefully) mystery aspect of it
right now im still in the setup phase, relatively easy
what i do know is that im moving at a snails pace, so much
thinking, so much pondering, inch by inch and step by step,
sentence by sentence, word by word, para by para -
but iam moving, by god and all thats holy im
clocking pages
Recent Comments