ernandez R -> RE: What do you mean, 'Who's the author?' - ALL OF THEM! (Mar. 30 2021 23:30:17)
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ORIGINAL: Fluknu Hi Estebanna, I started Foucault and I'm into"Les mots et les choses" (I guess it translates itself into "words and things"). He's very learned and interesting. I have a lot of pleasure reading him. But I can't say I'm a fan. I'm familiar with deconstructiviste thought, so it's not mind blowing, but the book is full of gems. I do not agree with some things, but other I do. I'll go on with the reading. I agree with you. The only thing where I disagree a bit is about the left. But that's a very specific problem as it's so peculiar to each country. Our left here is different than Frances' or the US's. So is our right. We have a middle right, and a far right. But the far right is, in Switzerland for example, not against abortion. The right to abort is here a given. But the far right is certainly against immigration. As an example, there's been recently a backlash against comedians who have mocked the cancel culture/woke culture. But that is also very specific, because they made fun of what is called inclusive language. In french, we have Masculine and Feminine. So now they are making word endings for trans and other categories. So now if I would translate it in english it would make :"Hello Folk-s-kette-kut-kat" - something like that. Those comedians have made fun of that. It has been taken as an attack against the lgbtq community. So the left has called for censure of comedians. I have to say that swiss comedians are not very corrosive. We're a really deeply consensual. Those comedians have caricatured the gymnastic of language, the evolution of culture, the divide, but they have never aimed at the person in itself. They also, in course of time, have caricatured mostly swiss caractere. Like the swiss rich hippie, the banker, the freudian psychologist, the typical swiss drunkard, you name it. Those comedians are a reflection of what we are and help us take distance. And here, for the first time, there's been a call for censure, from a minority. I think it's just the beginning, really. That's what makes me sad. As for the loss of freedom due to global market, big techs and so on, I totally agree. And our left here in Switzerland fights aginst that. So my fear lies here: the surveillance capitalist society (in reference to Soshana Zuboff's book - a good read) is way to powerfull at the moment and is already engulfing us. On the other side, the well inteded left, is going to shut our mouth and is creating a social tension. It's the perfect storm for me. I hope I'm wrong, but I think at the moment both sides are working towards a limiting of our freedom of movement. Neither of them makes sense. That's why I like Flamenco: you start stuck, in a jail, crappy, unable to express anything. But slowly you see some spaces of freedom emerging. It's a fight for freedom. But freedom within discipline. (that last part I wrote to go back to Flamenco :) I'm not sure it relally makes sense.) Fluknew, Your last couple thoughts brought this out: I've been working on this idea that it is the marginalized who really experience life while everyone else is trapped within their system bordered by rules which have become bars to growth. It's my recent experience with Flamenco history which has began to solidify this idea that, sure the world needs rules and conditions and limits, but there has always been a people with a deep soul of experience, painful experience quite often, that allows an event as simple as a sunny day to uplift them into song. I've written about this a few times, specifically, if you have never been hungry how can you taste; sure food and wine, a new pair of guitar strings, but what about a social security, just having a day when you are safe, your family is safe, your like and kind free from the hate of those trapped within the rules that can't include those outside. And once power has been castrated what does a man do, what can a man do, how does he take the rage inside and keep it from eating him alive, sure there is wine and whisky, so what has humanity done over the ages but cry? Flamenco and it musical kin, heard in desert dry and from field hands the world over, its sounds are almost guarantied, it's a price really, that men and women the world over ever sing, cause they must. HR
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