Mutual oppressions re informing each other
We don't know our history
Or if we know some of it, We know a version that negates our intimate possibilities of redemption
Self flagelating into a way of thinking and feeling that not only keeps us oppressed, but sabotage any attempt to reverse that tide
Such is the logic of violence and violated bodies: to keep forever inflicting in ourselves the guilt of a past of absolute powerlesness. A past that keeps perversely embroided in our skin
But how to reach redemption? Is it simply a matter of choice?
That would be nice wouldn't it. If it was a choice surely we would do it
Right?
Choices, opportunities.. agency what does that *really* mean?
The liberal/middle class 'progressive' would have us believing that no matter the condition, a 'decision' is always possible.
The decision to leave your violent partner, the decision to better yourself and learn english, to 'integrate' or at least learn few words so they can't fuck you over *that* much
Yes that is a nice thought
But what do we have behind underneath and within individual's 'decisions'?
We have stories. Stories of love, deception and sacrifice. Material and subjective ties, sometimes chains, enslaving, condemning, sealing fates as determinations
Mutual oppressions re-inforcing each other
What way for redemption?
Is there one?
We don't know our history
Or if we know some of it, We know a version that negates our intimate possibilities of redemption
Self flagelating into a way of thinking and feeling that not only keeps us oppressed, but sabotage any attempt to reverse that tide
Such is the logic of violence and violated bodies: to keep forever inflicting in ourselves the guilt of a past of absolute powerlesness. A past that keeps perversely embroided in our skin
But how to reach redemption? Is it simply a matter of choice?
That would be nice wouldn't it. If it was a choice surely we would do it
Right?
Choices, opportunities.. agency what does that *really* mean?
The liberal/middle class 'progressive' would have us believing that no matter the condition, a 'decision' is always possible.
The decision to leave your violent partner, the decision to better yourself and learn english, to 'integrate' or at least learn few words so they can't fuck you over *that* much
Yes that is a nice thought
But what do we have behind underneath and within individual's 'decisions'?
We have stories. Stories of love, deception and sacrifice. Material and subjective ties, sometimes chains, enslaving, condemning, sealing fates as determinations
Mutual oppressions re-inforcing each other
What way for redemption?
Is there one?
