2004-11-15
NIGHTWATCH
~ for Bill P, Godspeed
~ for Bill P, Godspeed
"The mighty images rolling off the flapping tongues of the charlatans demolish all contingencies, all time and place-bound conditionalities because, we are assured by the charlatans, these contradictions, exceptions, counter-trends are unimportant faced with the mystical 'Great Historical Perspective'
"The endless rhetorical vaporing about "civilizational", "epochal", "global" changes and "world-historical" century-long projections are at best based on anecdotal selective data.
"Practitioners of this style of rhetoric are 'ideological charlatans'. Their sweeping rhetoric ~ inspirational ~ to give its listeners a sense that they are witness to a grand all-inclusive process, which, if they follow the precepts of the ideological charlatans, they are capable of understanding and engaging."
James Petras |
CREDITS: Text from James Petras' The Politics of Imperialism published at CounterPunch || Image / yours truly ||
Music listened to while putting this together included: Oslodum-Gilberto Gil; Adiemus-The Journey; First Night Out + Tachyon Drive-John Serrie; Take Five-Dave Brubeck; Everything-Tim Hutton; She Works Hard for the Money-Donna Summer; Pueblo Nuevo- Buena Vista Social Club; Bad Sneakers-Steely Dan; Du Calme Et Du Sang Froid-Les Maracas; Higher Love-Stevie Winwood; Future Primitive-Haslinger; Burn in Hell mix-Erinfall; Lights Down-Peter Rauhofer | ~ It's been an odd evening | Hope this answers the writer who asked what kind of music do I like | Next time, go to some MP3 site, eh? ||
¶ 22:07 Music listened to while putting this together included: Oslodum-Gilberto Gil; Adiemus-The Journey; First Night Out + Tachyon Drive-John Serrie; Take Five-Dave Brubeck; Everything-Tim Hutton; She Works Hard for the Money-Donna Summer; Pueblo Nuevo- Buena Vista Social Club; Bad Sneakers-Steely Dan; Du Calme Et Du Sang Froid-Les Maracas; Higher Love-Stevie Winwood; Future Primitive-Haslinger; Burn in Hell mix-Erinfall; Lights Down-Peter Rauhofer | ~ It's been an odd evening | Hope this answers the writer who asked what kind of music do I like | Next time, go to some MP3 site, eh? ||
