Malaise

[Rhiannon]

I don't remember if I posted this already or not, but here it is again anyway.
It's so hard to cast off,
This comforting hatred.
That holds us stoically in position,
Territories marked.
Boundaries defined.
Strong of arm and thick of skull
We stand,
Never giving an inch,
Clinging desperately
To past glories and injustices,
Afraid to step naked into the world.
And find out who
We really are.

 

[harraser]

well if you have posted it before Im glad you posted it again coz i must have missed it...
I like this peice coz its so true, of racism or of having left a relationship or of anything else..... we'd usually rather sit and complain coz its easier than letting go and moving on. deep down humans are lazy creatures

 

[Nietzche]

Wow, I had a radically different reading of this poem than you harraasser . . . although the reference need not be made explicit, I remain convinced that this poem could just as eaisly be a reference to the modern crisis which has afflicted western philosophy. Consider: “its so hard to cast off” as a reference to eliminating the logos from western thought. Further consider:

Territories marked.
Boundaries defined. as symptomatic of the logocentric discourse of the western philosophy, always compartmentalizing, dividing and drawing lines through ideas. Also:

Clinging desperately
To past glories and injustices, my reading of the philosophical discourse, amongst others in the occident, traces the modern era back to Plato, especially with his privileging of the logos
Now, I am in no way insisting that this poem was constructed explicitly for this very abstract interpretation, rather I think its an interesting linguistic/discursive quirk which enables it to be read in such terms. Perhaps one aspect of the “post”modern condition is a rhizomaticly structured form of referntiality and meaning. Christ . . . I need to really lay off the philosophy . . .

 

[Rhiannon]

I _could_ intervene and say if one or both or neither of you is correct, but nahhhh.

 

[E-girl]

simply put, and beautiful