#exhaled

- Exhaled

Yep!! It’s a lot closer to my uni/work so I can finally stop waking up hours earlier just to go places. It’s pretty small but I’m just one person so it’s actually kinda cozy imo. Once I have everything set up I might take a few pictures but rn, I just put my bed down and plugged in my internet and called it a day. 

I will say something cool though. I have no idea how to explain it but I have something like this:

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- Auntie Exiled

I am late to this;; Thank you Auntie Exiled for blessing us with your wisdom 😌

Take these two passages from Edward Said’s otherwise thoughtful book Images of the Intellectual: “It is a spirit in opposition, rather than in accommodation, that grips me because the romance, the interest, the challenge of intellectual life is to be found in dissent against the status quo.” and “The intellectual always has a choice either to side with the weaker, the less well represented, the forgotten or ignored, or to side with the more powerful.”

The image that comes to mind is that of an enormous, windowless castle surrounded by a moat, with angry peasants outside with burning torches, fighting to get in. It’s a picture tinged with the romance Said mentions and seems to tell a simple story: An inherently unjust Power is exploiting the Powerless, who have truth and justice on their side. History is full of examples of this basic drama. But it is also full of examples like the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, when hundreds of the forgotten or ignored, in dissent against the status quo, tried to overturn a legal election. In this case the Power was legitimate and the Powerless were spreading lies about imaginary injustices. There is nothing a priori just or reasonable about the wretched of the earth.

But there is a deeper problem with this image of politics, which is basically medieval. It conveys an understanding of power as something monolithic, closed off, uncommunicative, always defensive—and the peasants as having no voice in its operation except through resistance. This was never the case even in the Middle Ages, and it is certainly not the case in modern democracies. There is no single “power elite” that commands the castle. Economic, political, and cultural power are different, are held by different people and groups and institutions at different times, and their interests are never fully aligned. Workers, voters, and consumers all have voices and must to some extent be catered to. Today they may feel they have less power than in the past, but that is not because Power is united against them; it is because power has become so dispersed and decentralized through globalization that it is ever harder to mobilize it to any clear collective end. When the state of affairs that results is unjust, a morally admirable urge to protest, to sound the NO!, surges within. One never wants to lose the capacity to utter that word. But what next? Fight the Power! Fine, but first we need its address. One of the many ironies of the New York Occupy Wall Street demonstrations of 2011 was that Wall Street doesn’t live on Wall Street anymore. It lives on servers in air-conditioned bunkers around the globe, hiding as best it can from responsibility. And no one yet knows how to tame it. »

- Exhaled

L-Legend? what are you talking about-

It had been chilly

for the past couple of mornings

and today seemed cooler still.

So, for the first time this season

I put my coat and hat on –

to go forth.

  I opened the door

and felt the soft kiss

of a breeze caress my face.

The morning air was indeed brisk

but at first I did not recognize –

what it meant.

  And then I realized

that this is the day this year

the first morning of actual cold.

A…