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mashing up.

Submitted by mlord on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 7:46am.

 First glances:

1. Culture (and everything else, if there is anything that isn't "culture" has a relationship to the past, but it surely isn't always "building on". Sometimes it is rewriting, sometimes desecrating, sometimes ignoring, sometimes adoring.

2. The past has no motive and I wonder that we would ascribe it one. The past has no desire. WE may feel anxious about our relationship to the past and may attempt to assuage our inevitable transfer to the dustbin of history by trying to control/prevent the future.

3. Each of us will always be free in every moment but, I note in middle age, it is true that the number of moments in which one can exercise one's freedom does seem to dwindle.

4. What if "free" and "societies" can't really co-exist? If one of these terms is always encroaching on the other then...a game of who gets to hide the ashes is really just taking attention from an even more basic, dynamic contradiction.... Looking forward to the afternoon.

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