LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Candidate Support Rally Washington Square Park

I head up to Washington Square Park as is my wont at this time of day when it is so nice outside to go over yesterday's work.

Can't get in. I'm assaulted at all sides by obama supporters asking me for money to support his candidacy, to wear his buttons, etc.

I am locked out of the park. I've been locked out of it since it was supposed to open at 6 or is it 7 a.m. this morning. The place is barricaded and NYC cops -- whose overtime here I'm paying for -- because -- Obama is having a Support Obama rally at 6 p.m. and security cannot allow any real human beings, er, voters even walking on the ground for 12 hours before hand.

In the meantime for most of this week I've not been able to go anywhere on the east side within 40 square blox of the UN because of clownface nattering on about human rights, freedom of speech and why reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is the wrong way to deal with climate change -- while, of course anyone who protests what he says is arrested, and / or kept 40 blox away from him.

This country's so very f*cked.
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