Very poetic, john, must i say that it reeks of nationalism...you're playing
the same game, however, what you want to do is change the rules. But what
you don't realize is that changing the rules will only leave you with a bad
game. What needs to be done is to change the game and this you have not
touched on. "not interested in the idea of australia"...sure you are. That
is why you want to:
"highlight the injustices to indigenous peoples and the racisms and
misogyny that prop up the Australian government, its bureaucracy, and those
capitalist enterprises that support it."
This is nothing less than the facade that is posited by Derrida's
deconstructionism. He says, all systems have a center and since he seems to
think that all centers marganalize then all centers are bad. So what does
he do? He comes up with another system, with another center that
marganalizes all the other systems with their supposed centers. Its a game
and this is the one you're playing here.
If you really want to use language for the purposes of freedom, you will
see that the structure of language is the basis for all the rules and hence
it is in playing the game of language well that one is then able to find
the tools to effectively challenge the structures of the State, which
include Society. One must master language in order to use it with force.
In language is the infallible (as much as is possible) ground and the only
ground where upon change may be wrought, though it would be foolish to
assume that it is by mocking the State and "highlighting injustice" that
one can achieve such force (not to say this is what you are doing). It is
in the ability to speak "Truth with Grace" and unearth the shameful
intentions of man-made structures that achieves the "nobility of force"
that truly opens the ears of men's hearts.
Though to change men's hearts...is not in us, as we are
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