tirsdag 27. januar 2009

Gaza: Shoah?

Hoje em Granada preparavam um dia de Shoah, falando de Gaza. Ali um massacre constante, latente com laivos de intensidade antes das eleições ou quando o governo americano está para fraquejar. (Até imagino porque o Hamas não gosta de Olmert, Sharon, Livni, eles retiram os escudos humanos israelenses de Gaza para bombardear depois, eles promovem eleições para não aceitar os resultados etc. Mas não se trata de julgar o Hamas, ou se trata?) Gaza está sendo um enorme engenho de homini sacri. Não é comparar com o Shoah, é tentar não deixar que nada que se assemelhe aconteça - vale a pena que aconteça?

Um Aharon Shabtai retirado do meu post no bucalumbrello de uns dias atrás (bucalumbrello.blogspot.com):

"War"

I, too, have declared war:
You'll need to divert part of the force
deployed to wipe out the Arabs --
to drive them out of their homes
and expropriate their land --
and set it against me.
You've got tanks and planes,
and soldiers by the battalion;
you've got the rams' horns in your hands
with which to rouse the masses;
you've got men to interrogate and torture;
you've got cells for detention.
I have only this heart
with which I give shelter
to an Arab child.
Aim your weapon at it:
even if you blow it apart
it will always,
always mock you.

mandag 26. januar 2009

Lotterism

I was wondering why can't we have power lotteries. The senators, for instance, selected through a lottery procedure. Like they did in old Athens. Why don't we leave power to be distributed by chance? Is power taken to be beyond randomness? It seems like power has a sacred connection to its bearer: it's more immanent than money. Power constitute someone: a shadow of necessary connection ties power to its bearer. The advances of capital bring randomness to power: the old story, there is no longer anything distinguishing the rich from the poor, only that the former happens to have the money. The diagnosis of Marx's Manifesto.

Maybe we should struggle for power lotteries. A lottery to be in the government, seating and voting in G20, in the senate.