Louis Prowe's Blog, page 7
December 23, 2019
How to Save the World
Abraham Abulafia was a jewish mystic who did not follow the rules for polite society — much to the chagrin of conservatives of the day…
Love is Imminent, Always.
We anticipate the presence as a cool breeze, or the movement of a cloud, or in a clap of thunder or the beaming countenance of a the sun —…
December 22, 2019
Thinking and Talking Disease
In the beginning of a commentary on Tendai’s Soshikan teachings, it is written that if you practice Zen well, all diseases are curable.
December 21, 2019
December 12, 2019
Well, then I shall wish you nothing but success in pursuing justice.
Well, then I shall wish you nothing but success in pursuing justice. We need more of it, though I find it less and less likely the world will turn towards it.
Sam, Sam, Sam.
Sam, Sam, Sam. You have quite the ego, don’t you? Why is it that poor simple me on a horse farm can’t engage the brilliant race scholar?
Nor am I trying to be rude — I am trying to get you answer a question. What if race itself, is a fabrication of society? What if any language around it siomply extends the fabrication?
By entering into a dialectic, you admit the existence of “other” — and so you must create these divisions that you “think” you are combating. Blackness as a phenomena, whiteness as it’s antithesis is at best — symbolic. You are not dealing in reality — you are dealing in postulations and pronouncements about reality. I do not.
Worse, you’ve done nothing to inquire as to what my views are, or answered my query, nor have you addressed my academic concerns — you’ve only continued to read your CV to me and “disqualify” me from the discussion — which is laughable. I too have “advanced degrees”. I just don’t rely on them to talk to other humans. That’s a lonely place when you are too smart to talk to others. It’s also asinine and elitist.
If you read your Bernays, Baudrillaird, Foucoult or Derrida, you’d know that semantics and verbiage do not comprise reality — they are reflections of it, and on it.
Stuff your elitist academic attitude my friend.
Sam, get over yourself son.
Sam, get over yourself son. I don’t have to read certain books to “address you”. You are not special because you are black and an intellectual with certain academic credentials. You seem incapable of engaging outside of specific guidelines — which makes you rather limited in my view. My point is that there are no “special cases”. There are only human beings — all of whom have been more or less oppressed in history.
December 11, 2019
Dear friend —
Dear friend —
I do not agree with you. That is not how race works-that is how the mind that perceives race and difference works. So I am glad you are LOLing at my seeming ignorance. But who is not ignorant? Reality, even in the dullest definiton, is not binary. Rain is not because of sun, and sun is not because of rain. I suggest easing your mind. I suggest loosening the ties. I suggest you study zen and see that distinctions will never ease the problems of humanity. Only we can ease the suffering of our minds. Perhaps one person at a time takes a long time — but then, so humans have spend enough time in the world of verbs — of us and them, of “black” and “white.”
I hope we will cease talking, and live more of the heart.
I’d be a fool if I did not say that even though you make a wonderfully compelling and inspiring…
I’d be a fool if I did not say that even though you make a wonderfully compelling and inspiring arguement — it is binary and built on semantics and language and therefore does not resemble reality. Furthermore, you quote experts. I don’t care about expertise and academia. I care about people. How, or why do you, Sam, “combat” whiteness — and to quote a reporter rebuffed by Malcolm once, “Are you white people then devils?”
December 10, 2019
Curious how a writer can “combat whiteness”, and what would happen if I, wanted to combat…
Curious how a writer can “combat whiteness”, and what would happen if I, wanted to combat “blackness”. Mind you, I am part African, and therefore somewhat “black”.
