detailed, thoughtful explication of the necessary evil of States in our world, esp. but not only re: #climatechange https://t.co/wyo3cRF0Tk
— David Golumbia (@dgolumbia) October 30, 20151 Parenti's emphasis on the social as developmental formation in the service of total military mobilization @dgolumbia
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 30, 20152 (both war preparation, and care of veterans/widows/orphans) is important but risks distortion in its incompleteness. @dgolumbia
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 30, 20153 There is necessary countervailing emphasis in which the Social responds to the Social Question, @dgolumbia
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 30, 20154 that is to say, provides for amelioration of hardship for the many, development and maintenance of the consent of the governed, @dgolumbia
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 30, 20155 a legible scene of informed, nonduressed consent to the terms of everyday life, general welfare's part in a more perfect union. @dgolumbia
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 30, 20156 Development's protagonist isn't only Hamilton but also DeWitt Clinton, only Bismarck but also socialization as democratization. @dgolumbia
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 30, 20157 Parenti's emphasis makes more sense in the specific context of his concern with the anthrobscene, @dgolumbia
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 30, 20158 since the time and space scales of climate crimes befuddle the political/ethical categories of consent @dgolumbia
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 30, 20159 in ways that seem to demand most of all a reorientation of society qua War Machine @dgolumbia
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 30, 201510 (climate change may be our generational chance at Piketty's equity-enabling Shocks of War), @dgolumbia
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 30, 201511 but the War Machine is simply always susceptible to rationalizing the State as occupation force -- elite-incumbent rule -- @dgolumbia
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 30, 201512 so whatever the temptation of recourse to the War Machine we can never rhetorically omit the priority of the Consensual Scene. @dgolumbia
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) October 30, 2015
2 comments:
> climate change may be our generational chance at Piketty's
> equity-enabling Shocks of War
Likely enough. Ah, the luxury of the Olympian point of view!
If you're down in the scrum, on the other hand, the process
may be unpleasant unto death. But if you're flying above it all
(like Americans (!), or the Overlords in the upcoming SyFy dramatization of
Arthur C. Clarke's _Childhood's End_), then you can write
it all off to the vagaries of Galactic History, or
something.
"I feel more and more sorry for these people."
-- Rashaverak, to Karellen, in _Childhood's End_
Needless to say, the point is not to celebrate ongoing and upcoming climate catastrophe but to point out that it can be the occasion either for change for the worse or change for the better. In the undergraduate course I teach on environmental justice the first lesson is always taught to the students, whether well-meaning or just spoiled, who are in denial about the catastrophic climate change future... of course, they discover soon enough that climate change catastrophe is already present and that it is only white-racist patriarchal capitalist insulation from its real-world ravages that enables the displacement of the crimes of waste and pollution and war onto a questionable "future" in the first place.
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