Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:34:46 -0600 (CST)
From: jelly-AT-mail.utexas.edu (Jessica and Sterlings Mail)
Subject: Re: artists and revolution


>once you've got Revlon hawking "Revolutionary makeup for revolutionary
>women", well, the word is dead. 

Hey everybody, Millie's back!

By the way, think you're right; evolution is where its at- given of course
that we can't pull off the revolution.  The trick is for some of us to
evolve before the rest of us kill them off- this species has a nasty habit
of killing off anything it doesn't understand.

Are we at that crossroads, the corssroad of evolve or die?  Consider what we
know about ourselves at this point; 

In science, granted, we've always thought we couldn't do that, but we are
now starting to realize that, heh, they are some things we just won't EVER
be able to do... like travel at the speed of light, or build particle
accelerators big enough to see what the universe was like 10 to the -23
after the "Big Bang"...

In linguistics; language is, inherently, phenomenologically, limiting.  We
think in its terms, we define through the polemical in its terms; on that
not, it might be even more sadomasichistically pessimistic to note that
meaning has ALWAYS been dead...

In philosophy; well, post-existentialism, outside of Aristetelian logic,
what can you really say anymore?... the whole process is inductive, a fuzzy
area that no one wants to touch...

In religion; theologians (at least those with their eyes open) are starting
to realize that the "simple" model of religion is a good way to teach mores
to those who need it, but, aside from that, even at its most
intellectualized, that institution whose sole purpose is TO OFFER PURPOSE
falls short; it is not enough, in and of itself, for the "TRUE" (wank, I
know) seeker...

In politics; its like, we know its all pointless, deep inside; that B.
Clinton and B. Dole can make empty promises until the cows come home,
because we have to vote for one or the other, and we really can't make them
do anything, and between them and their private sector chums, well, they
have all the power on Earth, why should they give a fuck about us ( I mean
REALLY give a fuck about us...

And as for economics, I think its safe to say that, as Millie pointed out
for us, the machine is way the FUCK out of control (having built in
over-production,non-ethical, futurless comsumption, and exploitation-
through the mechanisms of what we call 'efficient economics', the workers
labor is continually devalued; did you know that the harder a worker works,
the less they are, technically, being paid?; five widgets and hour equals
five dollars an hour, so ten widgets an hour equals ten dollars an hour,
right? WRONG! still equals five an hour...)

Think we are reaching critical mass; not that I'm a doomsayer- if our time
is over then heh, so fucking be it (why are we exempt from the "law of the
jungle"?)

thoughts?

sterling
Austin



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