THEY RECOIL FROM THAT

I started the day by reading Franz Fanon;
after having ended the nigt by reading
Loren Eiseley: Former all politics,

latter utterly devoid of politics;
in a way that feels political.

With all his nostalgic looking back,

resembling Bradbury and Kerouac,

Eiseley still talks contemporary

issues, human's relationship

to nature and deep time

in their moment

of existence.

And Fanon... Palestine,

Western Sahara, West Papua,

even the holy Ukraine of the 'West'

all issues of colonialization,

decolonializiation. Deep,

all-pervading racism

in how the 'West'

deals with them.

He would have believed

that we would have them

sorted out now, Fanon.

But history took a wrong

turn. To get it back

in the right channel

demands a lot of blood.

And for all of their care

for nature and human

relationship to it now

and across time, these

unpolitical Loren

Eiseleys are at fault.

They recoil from that.

05.-07.04.2024

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