Dissident

[matrixmann]

I sit
and I will be rewarded.

I shut up
and I will be praised.

I write,
but I stop.

Is this
going to drive them away?

Will they
even listen to what I say?

I am
afraid.

I ain't
no fighter on the ground.

Shamefully reminded
that a pencil is not a gun.

What is it
that I can do?

Comments

[mandarinsun.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should combat what you hate through Buddhism or studying Eastern thought. Gandhi took down the British Imperialist and Martin Luther King Jr took down the White Southern Racists that way.

The benefit is that you never have to openly engage violently against your enemies, you are always flanking them and trying to get better and better ground. Or just better ground that the bad ground you have. In the short term, it always works and has the benefit of its practitioner having to become violent and deal with legal authorities.

In the long term, maybe it is too passive to actually cause change, however it passes it off by saying people go through reincarnations towards becoming more and more Buddha like. So, it implies that maybe thousands of years from now everyone, or most people, will be enlightened but now nearly no one is ready for that.

[nyxalinth.livejournal.com]

I feel like this much of the time.

[mandarinsun.livejournal.com]

Writing is very Eastern in that it keeps the hope of a future revolution valid, but never really demands that it happens immediately. I bet the French, American, and Russian revolutions would have have happened without writing- though that sounds dumb to say, like of course they wouldn't have. But still, there are probably psychoanalytic books or essays about what writing is and how it both instills and defers action- or there could be. It reminds me of something concerning Derrida or Lacan. The problem with things that go with them though is that it gets lost in how intellectual and academic those guys were. It reeks of being too intellectual or something. I can picture how stuff like that makes people feel- overwhelmed and like it is reading nonsense- which to a large degree it is. However, it is difficult to talk about how writing is revolutionary without pointing back to something like psychoanalysis which Lacan and Derrida were also about.

It seems like what is lacking in Muslim countries is the idea that you can dissent strongly and revolt through reading and writing. They all think you have to go bomb or destroy things.

blood type

[mandarinsun.livejournal.com]

Oh, I meant that the French, American, and Russian revolutions would NEVER have happened without writing.