Yes Michael, and this is profoundly poetic.
All human traditions, values and communities are dissolved in an acid
bath of everlasting agitation and uncertainty.
What this passage does not describe though is a situation where the
wider ecologies of non-human planetary life, upon which we depend, are
also fatally eroded.
We need to sense and engage not just the real relations with "our kind"
(expanded to engage people and perspectives of all kinds (YES Gretta!)),
but beyond, with other species, and materials.
This must include a correction to systems of dominance - to which Simon
points with his example of improper use of neuro-science to validate the
'use' of humans.
On 23/04/16 16:38, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
Marx & Engels on accelerationism in 1848:
"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the
instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production,
and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old
modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first
condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant
revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social
conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the
bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen
relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and
opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before
they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is
profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his
real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."
This does the *descriptive* job as well as anything written since
and it still stands perfectly well...
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