from my “subject position” or point of view Don’t Compare Identify
i yam who i yam as r. crumb might say…..as dum as a yam & as fecund…follow vine to root
12/8 path spiritually…,,12 steps and 12 trads of @@American anarchism (alkies anon)
……………………………………………………….8 fold path of Buddhism as preached by pema
……………………………………………………..& by ‘tick not on’,,,jjust for starters
…..12/8 as the “time signature” shared by Count Basie, Elvin Jones, shuffle rhythms
syncopated & clave’d variably: taxi jive brushes, r&b, NOLA & Cuba rhythmning, wider & wider
libertarian Marxist politically (like economist Yani V) i.e. the theory and method of jazz combos
…………teamwork to “make the drummer sound good” (Monk to Steve Lacy)
……..in poco loco local culture against so-called civilization and lethal “progress”
…………“groove locally chill globally” (from machito’s markito)
……..from 1980s on into this century circa 2000 and early retirement from a devo academe
…………been pushing joy “funism” as the third pillar of wisdom after marxism & feminism
“joy encompass everything”
whereas Thomas Naylor talks existentialism and Camus as context (and Camus loved Simone W.)
I’m promulgating PT = Participation Theory of as many different kinds as I can find:
Q1: what’s the PT, the MO, modus operandi, the style-as-process of each people or culture?
…….. Can I identify? Can I play?
Q2: what is each person’s or questing/expressing individual’s PT? MO?
……… Can I identify? Can I play with…
…….. Can I be homo ludens collaborans with Malcolm X or Mr. E or Ms. W
So, on this page or version of who i yam, I get to the verb, to identify, to become the other, to go native, to become fluent in an-other-style way of playing, mode of being…
……..my yass is my ass……..my no is my nose,,,,,,,,i’m a simple man by Nature
Igbo hi-life [ “Identity” by Oliver De Coque and His Expo ’76] in free translation by m.c.k.
…………time to say that “identity” the noun doesn’t mean much to me, or it signals a false fixity, a label, a tag, that in the current technofascist social swirl is used to stereotype-scapegoat-swiftboat
……..PC=s Particpatory Consciousness for me…encompassing ‘politically correct’
……..do educated fleas need “race” and “gender”? neither do we
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wrote a short but tightly worded comment for “Soros on the Roma” which is Bill Benzon’s take on the interpreter of Soros who tries to ignore the new role assigned to George by Breitbart and Faux News as Evil Jew in Chief, commander and funder of Frankfurt Schooler conspiracy to control Wall St. ? say wah? who he Horkheimer, blando Habermas, dim Adorno of the incomprehensible pseudo-paradoxical sentences, Marcuse of repressivde desublimation fame — these are the long gone Jewish genius ghosts who today stoop to conquer and call the shots at Goldman Sachs? manipulate ‘rates’ at unaudited Fed? mastermind unauditable Pentagon? flood deepstate swamp?
the one family-friendly billionaire, the one with some heart, gets to be Q Scapegoat #1
let’s sing our olde team’s flight-not-fight song:
…………plumpadenkan plumpadenken sis boom bah
…………brecht und Benjamin better by far
…………than all those mediating Frankfurt schoolers
…………measuring man with negative rulers