BARAKA BASHMENT

“Community is no longer constituted starting from intimate relations of kinship, from closeness with others, but from outside, starting from rules, from goods, from borders that are more or less foreign to the subject(s).

An enclave resists this conception of the community: the family. In it certain features of aboriginal archaic cultures live on: familiarity, a settled way of life, oral sharing, natural and common law. The State, it is true, strives to substitute its norms here: demanding children, labor, goods, the submission of singularity to an abstract and artificial conception of the individual. The family, like woman, moreover, is simultaneously overvalorized and devalorized, colonized. It is subjected to values that are foreign to it and that, little by little, destroy it.”

Take note of the openness as to what constitutes a “family.”

Praise the undefined!

State & reigious Law attempting to define the natures of organized communities—be they familial or artistic—is violence.

Tell States(TM) and Religions(TM) to get the fuck out of your meaning-making today.

Praise the cacaphony that is God!
Praise the undoing of done!
Praise the naked God!
Praise God!

I’m having a shitty week. Not that anything’s happening. And perhaps that’s just it. That mundane stuff has caught up with me for the time being.

When that happens I just get sad for the mountains.

I swear. If I could go back and live in the Colorado big mountains again, and for the rest of my life. I would.

The city is the lonliest place I’ve ever lived.

Listening to Reeltime Travelers (pictured above).

“To demand equality as a woman is, it seems to me, a mistaken expression of a real objective. The demand to be equal presupposes a point of comparison. To who or to what do women want to be equalized? To men? To a salary? To a public office? To what standard? Why not to themselves?”