Michael Perelman wrote: > Nothing for the people who are being plowed under > by the crisis. All we have to show for our troubles > is Obama and Hillary.
I guess that's because: Humans make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past -- e.g. the Democratic Party. The tradition of all dead generations (e.g. those under Roosevelt, Reagan, Bill Clinton, etc.) weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of political crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. In like manner, the beginner who has learned a new language always translates it back into her mother tongue, but she assimilates the spirit of the new language and expresses himself freely in it only when he moves in it without recalling the old and when he forgets her native tongue. - Julio Huato (2008) _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
