Thursday, December 22, 2005

All that is solid melts into air

all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind."

-Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto

Are we disintegrating ourselves into milieu of our own technological sophistication?
Is our impulse to globalize dangerously feeding our desire to fractionate?
Are we at last compelled to face the real conditions of our life and the life we share with others?

The Communist Manifesto is perhaps still one of the most interesting critiques of the phenomenon of disintegration, not only as it applies to the bourgoisie's ability to disintegrate the proletariat's identity of herself and her relation to her labor, but Marx's impact upon the world is scarecly to be underemphasized. Though this book does not have the answers to the problem of disintegration, and perhaps this book and his movement did more to accelerate the world into the direction we may be headed into now...the questions it raises are important.

It is often suggested that the questions are more important than the answers. For those that seek just answers are doomed to an ideological abyss. That it is the search for questions that keeps one afloat in a world which seeks to drown us under the weight of our tasks and our emotions. Should we forever be buried, drowned in a sea of daily life.

Or, is this just one step of many? Not the first or the last, but a cyclical journey between holy and profane, innocent and guilty, naked and nude.

Is Disintegration the first step towards reconciliation...

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