Monday, November 5, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Teaching
You may lead a horse to water. The horse
may not be thirsty. Or the intuitive animal
might smell something wrong about the
water--or be spooked off it for another
reason. The horse may also have no
particular cause to trust you. If the
horse doesn't drink this time, it may
drink later, and it will probably remember
where this trough or pond or creek is.
So don't be in a rush to give up,
declare failure (the horse's), and
congratulate yourself for doing
all you could. Try a different way.
Look for different water. And anyway,
people aren't horses, so there's that.
Hans Ostrom, 2012
may not be thirsty. Or the intuitive animal
might smell something wrong about the
water--or be spooked off it for another
reason. The horse may also have no
particular cause to trust you. If the
horse doesn't drink this time, it may
drink later, and it will probably remember
where this trough or pond or creek is.
So don't be in a rush to give up,
declare failure (the horse's), and
congratulate yourself for doing
all you could. Try a different way.
Look for different water. And anyway,
people aren't horses, so there's that.
Hans Ostrom, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
The Economy Needs the Poor
“The economy needs the poor,” says
a wee lad on the precipice of a bachelor
of arts in economics to me. He’s the son
of some remote dickhead CEO in France
One of the brightest students I’ve ever taught,
a Black and Latina woman from
Oakland (she likes the 49ers, I like the
Raiders, we riff on that) says, “The
political science students on campus
are the least culturally competent—
they’re not equipped for this society.”
Today, this month, November 2012,
I think, well, Whiteness will have its
way: cocaine-speed-meth
capitalism, fuck-you-
we’re going
to fucking war, if you’re a
thinking
person, then go fuck yourself,
we will
dominate you, we always have,
so suck our illiterate radioactive dicks.
Old, I wish to God it would be different
for the thinking young I know. You don’t
know how much I wish that this were so.
I wish God would empower them.
And then I look at the mainstream shit
they all must countenance, and I think,
“God damn it, the demons have won.
The motherfucking super-rich have won.”
Hans Ostrom, 2012
Elections
In this our word-meat phase,
we control-alt-delete
soothing Constitutional lullabies.
Technicians drive translucent
needles into our representatives'
brains to lubricate the legislative
mastication. From under sheets
of plastic ice, we can't see Government.
It is a rumored air-ship high above.
Hans Ostrom, 2012
we control-alt-delete
soothing Constitutional lullabies.
Technicians drive translucent
needles into our representatives'
brains to lubricate the legislative
mastication. From under sheets
of plastic ice, we can't see Government.
It is a rumored air-ship high above.
Hans Ostrom, 2012
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