I am you dragging halo
posted by murmurists at 3:13 am
Anthony Donovan is an artist, musician, composer, improviser and writer based in England. He works solo, either as Murmurists or under his own name, and is associated with projects such as Destroyevsky, Ou_pi Golgotha.undead, Spidey Agutter and the.clinamen. An ardent collaborator, he has worked with the likes of John Zorn, Jochen Arbeit, Geoff Leigh, PAS, Steve Beresford and Damo Suzuki. Donovan co-curates the respected labels Classwar Karaoke and suRRism-Phonoethics with Jaan Patterson. His interests are all either obscure or opaque, but morally authentic.
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8 Comments:
makes you wonder just whose empire was the more benign doesn't it? if empire can be benign.
Nowt benign about America, I would say. I think I'll live long enough to see it again use the power of the atom against people: to protect its interests.
Does that figure include the covert operations, destabilisations and CIA training for death-squads?
the whole point of the doing the toppling was to install democrocy, i say whole point, we know that's bollox, but the lip service they give us is 'it's for democrocy'
so, how many are democratic now?
oh, yes, that's right.
Zero --- (please say with american accent)
i think i got my facts? straight on this one, won't mind being corrected though...
any offers above the big nought?
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Anthony: I doubt it.
Inc: No offers above the 0 from me, mate.
Thing is, democracy is an absolute concept: ie. one cannot have degrees of democracy; a system is either democratic or it isn't. Actually, there are no democracies in existence. There are only less harsh, less devisive, less unfair plutocracies/oligarchies. Hence, one would rather live in the West than in, say, Chad. One's feeling in that way is, of course, inseperable from one's origins, on the one hand, and the natural enough desire for comfort, security, and opportunity, on the other. This is no vie to live in North Korea. But we are routinely - and erroneously - told in the West that the West is both the best and the logic extent of the civilising enterprise. We can debate this. But it is true enough to say that living in a capitalist system has huge downsides - in terms of mental illness; loneliness, alienation and dissociation; and poverty and inequality, which other supposedly poorer countries have less of. I cannot separate my instinctive feeling that I would rather live in the West than in Chad exactly because I am a product of here. But that doesn't mean that that system - values, mores, ideas - is all there is. One needs to be either very stupid or very self-interested to actually think that invading Iraq etc. was anything to do with humanism. From The Crusades to T.E. Lawrence to the Bush family's adverturism, it's just the West wanting something from The Middle East: that is Jerusalem, an ally against the Turks (further destablising of the erstwhile Ottoman Empire), and oil, respectively.
interesting/sad world we live in :)
I don't think any form of government can work without some changes in the human being itself...
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