Global Amnesia
‘They say they want the Kingdom
But they don’t God in it…’
(U2 feat. Johnny Cash, ‘The Wanderer’)
30 years after the Wall Berliners did not pay undue reverence.
30 years after Tiananmen Square protesters are shot live on TV in Hong Kong.
Just a shot away and international audiences still cast a blind eye.
Much of the energy spent on globalization still revolves around peoples, states and fear. Only partial globalization still ensures late triumphs for parochial enterprises — which want to make the world a smaller place through containment.
Dynamics of a small world fuel one another. By pushing for further deterritorialization euphoric global pundits cast blind eyes to contradictions. By striving for enclosed spaces globalskeptics selectively employ a globalized toolkit around. Ceasing to be smaller in simultaneous moves seem out of the curve of this world’s best bets.
Across shrinking places some may disentangle more swiftly. As the loss of place sets in they are rendered suddenly without many burdens. So they get away with it. Others decry losses. It takes longer to take it. Overriding nostalgia may be offered in new corners of this world.
Global amnesia, the irresistible outcome. Some of them want to use it as soon as it pleases. Others want to be useful under stress. Some will forget any liquid present for a frozen past.
Resistance gets more productive than surrender.
Raging against the global deus ex machina they forget movements about. The “end of history” arrives in contingent amnesia. 30 years after we are nowhere near to truth.
Evasions take precedence. The coming of liberal democracy was fake news. Surrender, expectations.
Immouzzer, Kingdom of Morocco
2019.11.11
