in germany tuskish problem is actual, i saw a theater piece from 'a free scene', made by turkish director, where he also like in this movie puts himself in a 'good german shiller educative position' towards turkish authoritarian values. in this movie the same -the director is very famous-fatih akin (turkish 2 immigrant generation in germany) propagandizing christian values, how good germans are in their hearts in the same time showing how christian are our german turkish imigrants, we have raised them. this is again 'positive, passive, hidden aggression'.
i think today we can not talk from national positions, you are american and i am georgian, but rather from political positions
totally... there is no "american" or "georgian" other then in terms of regions, memory... in terms of the Dead. (and sometimes ghosts.. who are often rather peculiar souls.. caught in the middle worlds)...
ReplyDeletebut the living... where 'we' are at... is a terrain rich with strange inter-connections.. so that the "political" is indeed itself, not always (or hardly at all) as clear as we might like to imagine (in our aggressive egos to BE ME, the hero for myself)...
and yes totally this kind of Agressive "we are the kind one's of Great Europa" is like this song that keeps on being sung again and again in europa lands.. the question is why? what does that refrain do? how does it re-organize ideas of power, place and identity? It seems to me that it re-initiates a sentimentalist notion of Self (as good european) in Nation-State, while maintaing a safe (and controlling) distance from the 'others'. In other words, its not really interested in what the 'others' have or have-not to contribute or bring to the here and now, but rather is most concerned with re-aligning Power as a matter of a particular hierarchy (which remains 'tastefully' unstated but is as plain as day really....)... There is a great deal of fear in it... A great deal of confusion as well...
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