--Thomas Frank.
There is much discussion about the populism of the right but, of course, with no hint that the established forces will, if they haven't already, be using whatever can muster the spirit in these late days for their own purposes. The very thought that anyone can challenge not just the military-industrial complex but the finance-media one too is, quite frankly, preposterous.
The old maverick card doesn't wash any more. Old hat.
Talkin' about a revolution..
Poor people gonna rise up and take what's theirs..
~
'The flower's pollen
is older than the mountains.'
--J.B.
At least fifteen million years ago, and possibly as many as forty-five million, they landed in the sticky sap of a tree that is now extinct, in a kind of forest that no longer exists on Earth.'
---The New Yorker.
When the forests have been burned
their darkness remains.'
--W.S. Merwin.
~
The revolutions: Our lives move in circles of varying circumference. The smaller, tighter ones of our daily lives; biological and seasonal cycles that link us with older generations, other species, trees, wind, flowers. Cosmic cycles that we chance upon through our instruments or imagine in perfect abstraction or in our colour-soaked myths, linking the moments of our lives to the elements, the stars, all that is vast and invisible at the same time. Even the darkness in the human heart, you half imagine, has its time and place in the ebb and flow of the universe.
It is amazing to think that what is apparently 'low' or insignificant can survive for so long; and that what is apparently mighty and puffed up falls with a crash, leaving no trace but a line in our storybooks! Kings and powerful men make the mistake of assuming the small pattern of their lives is a mirror of some wider, more universal one.
How things eventually turn out and who is on what arc, which trajectory, is not something we can fathom.
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