Sunday, December 12, 2010

We Know...

You feel it as an irresistible sense of overwhelming release, one which you only begin to fully understand as your mind readjusts itself away from the confines of the knowledge factory.

A break, even for only a few days or few weeks, in the assembly line of university indoctrination to which we have offered our tacit if grudging consent. A learning process built on monotonous lectures by a dry old professor standing at the head of the whole hollow edifice because they produced the lengthiest and most sweet sounding articles for a stale academic press. The production of papers recognized as farcical as much by the student toying with the margins as it is by the overworked TA reluctantly tossing out B+’s as a landmark to their own incapacity to truly teach within a University Structure aimed at unteaching.

The feeling emerges, seemingly paradoxically but in actuality perfectly, as a real conscious lust for learning. A desire to create. A desire to reshape and grow and grasp the potential for human-being as an act. Books, documentaries, articles, conversations, interaction and feeling are ripped from the ghostly specter of a forced construction into essential tools with which we begin to articulate in imperfect language what we have always known and yet which the University has sought to deny us.

Namely, the very fact that we have known.

That we as subjects of oppression and commodification in a part of its horrid and decadent multiplicity know within ourselves and eachother the character of the world in which we exist, we know the social worlds we have constructed better then we could ever articulate them, we know there can be more to our existence then the fragile mix of coercion and collusion which has kept us mute.

We yearn

For knowledge which is our own

We Know

Another World is Possible

-We Shall Be All

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