Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
C U R R E N T W I S D O M The Nation Esoteric rumblings from the galley slaves who sweat below deck for Victor Navasky and the New Dawn: New York City As workers at The Nation, we protest...
...This in se, corresponding to total positive intention between individual-environment and collectivity, remains in fact divided from the man-history on account of mechanistic fixtures which determine human alienation...
...I'm glad about it...
...Which are certain characterizations of blacks...
...That's not meant as anti-Semitic 9 . . If you can't buy any suits downtown, you go down to Jewtown on Maxwell Street, and you start negotiating with Hyman and Sons . . . And if Hyman and Sons show up they're called Hymie...
...And the men here in this country and everywhere else who would deny me the liberty to walk by myself on a beach or for that matter on a street, this seems to be part of the same process of willful annihilation of my liberty as 'a human being...
...For all scholars of merit the Xth Congress will be a scientific and human opportunity to individuate the base force for a functional anthropology...
...April 9, 1984] The Daily Oklahoman Learned observations from a Maryknoll man of the cloth at large in the Yankee interior: A Catholic priest said Monday night that President Reagan and Iran's Ayatollah g~ilaollah Khomeini have basically the same idea of holy war...
...Understand...
...He said, 'Don't pray--they're in the arms of God.w , We have identical notions of holy war...
...Jewtown is where Hymie gets you if you can't negotiate them suits down," you understand...
...And I shall keep bearing whatever scars I must bear to make room for people...
...This thing took on a life of its own...
...to consummate the act of social schizophrenia in mass genocide...
...Not quite like nigger, but like s o . . . Q. Do you remember when you first used "Hymie'" and in what context...
...What's the difference between the Ayatollah Khom'eini picking 14-year-old boys off the street, sending them to Iraq, telling them that war is their key to heaven...
...The proof of the monster ejaculation on black land And if, after Namibia and if, after Angola and if, after Zimbabwe and if, after all of my kinsmen and women resist even to self-immolation of the villages and if after that we lose nevertheless, what will thebig boys say...
...David Acker, Claudine Bacher David Bank, Anthony Borden Phyllis L. Burns, Ann B. Epstein Karen FitzGerald, John Holtz L.A...
...Will they claim my consent...
...1, 1983...
...What will the evidence look like...
...There's no insult even to them...
...Naturally this must be analyzed also according to the traces of the force points of the already exposed group pressures, of ideological upheavals and of echoastronomical concomitances...
...They had sacks over their head as they endorsed me in the daytime, maybe for fear that the banks might close on them or for fear that the agriculture department might punish them...
...A. I think the first time I heard it was when I got to Chicago about 20 years ago...
...And it's not that 1 sat down to write a poem about my, uh, rage and anguish at having been raped and then it occurred to me to hook it up to South Africa, that was an awareness that 1 was not even conscious of until I articulated the whole thing in one poem, in one blow...
...March 17, 1984] The New York Times The Holy Man Jackson recounts a recent stirring adventure in the American outback: I simply bear the marks in my body of reaching for redemption, I had the experience last--two weeks ago in Missouri, some small white farmers who endorsed Reagan in 1980...
...Kissinger is a man, but the globe is not a woman...
...February 10, 1984] The New York Times Another joyous Soviet official pauses from the hum of socialist life to celebrate one of his country's many triumphs: A senior Soviet military official, marking the official "Day of Antiaircraft Defenses," today hailed the downing of the Korean Airlines 747 jetliner last September...
...But the publication of his drawing shows that The Nation itself is imbued with that mentality...
...The artist's intention may have been to dramatize the confusion between sex and power in the mind of a powerful white, middle-aged man...
...asked the Rev...
...it is that a progressive magazine has no business using rape jokes and sexist imagery (he screws, she is screwed) to make the point that Kissinger revels in his international dominance...
...Kauffman, Cookee V. Klein Andrew Kopkind, Douglas Lavin Laurie Lipper, Greta Loeil Judith Long, Ola Lyon Maria Margaronis, George Monaco Jane Oski, Katha Pollitt Mark A. Rausher, Jane W. Sharpies Micah Sifry, Shirley Sulat Art Winslow, JoAnn Wypijewski [March 24, 1984] I.O.A...
...No wonder seven out of ten of our subscribers are men...
...If American policy greets them with reason and restraint, they may well seek that generational destiny in reform at home rather than expanded power abroad...
...James Sinnott, a Maryknoli priest...
...October 1983] Newsweek Philological enlightenment from the Demosthenes of Campaign '84, vouchsafed during an interview with the lily-white editors of Newsweek: Q. You seem to have said that "'Hymie" is not a derogatory phrase...
...There's a place down off Maxwell Street called "Jewtown...
...In fact it seems that, beyond all its possible adaptations, the life stimulus or the a priori cause persists as man's in se...
...Unable to claim credit for any of the nation's historic achievements, they will have to seek their own...
...C U R R E N T W I S D O M The Nation Esoteric rumblings from the galley slaves who sweat below deck for Victor Navasky and the New Dawn: New York City As workers at The Nation, we protest the publication of David Levine's cartoon in the February 25 issue...
...special services with the use of a South Korean airplane on Sept...
...March 23, 1984] The Nation A Kremlinologist speculates on the patently implausible once more and with feeling: Younger Soviet leaders will be different in one important respect...
...Now that is where it i s . . . [April 9, 1984] National Public Radio Morning Program The venerable Miss June Jordan proffers reflections and poesy of the geopolitical sort during a gruesome interview on National Public Radio: There's a hookup I made between my vulnerability as a woman, having been raped, and the conduct of the South African government...
...Marines were blown up in Beirut...
...I make no apology about it...
...I just believe in that...
...It will be a concrete possibility to look beyond political categoricals and to meet the man-event starting from the authentic child...
...All 269 people aboard the Korean plane were killed . . . . Marshal Koldunov said the air-defense forces' "high level of readiness to fulfill their military duties is witnessed by relatively recent history: the destruction of the American spy plane U-2 on May 1, 1960, of the American reconnaissance plane RB-47 that crossed into our polar skies July 1, 1960, and the termination of the provocation prepared by the U.S...
...The Congress will not propose a theory or an nth dialectical ideology, but it will open to all those scholars who are really seeking the real of social man as personal self-realization, a vision so far unforeseen...
...Do you follow me...
...It's a sacrament of my religion9 [May 4, 1984] 46 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1984...
...A. It's noninsulting colloquial language9 So many times we've said, "We're going to New York, we're going to Harlem, we're going to Chocolate City...
...The problem is not that the drawing is sexually frank...
...l mean, I wrote that poem without any drafts at all, it just came out like that: I was wrong again to be me being me where I was wrong to be who I am god-damned wrong Which is exactly like South Africa penetrating, as it were, into Namibia penetrating into Angola and does that mean, I mean, how do you know if Pretoria ejaculates...
...Congress Announcement What follows is from a printed announcement from the International Ontopsychology Association, though it does indeed sound like a dinner conversation recently heard by one of our editors trapped a table at a party given by an adult sociologist: The Ontopsychological school, availing itself of new research criteria and of a new telematic epistemology, maintains that social modes do not spring from dialectics of territory or of class, or of consumer goods, or of means of power, but rather from dynamic latencies capiilarized in millions of individuals in system functions which, once they have reached the event maturation, burst forth in catastrophic phenomenology engaging a suitable stereotype protagonist or duty marionette (general, president, political party, etc...
...South Africa is attempting to make impossible the control of your own life for all the black peoples of southern Africa...
...Reagan sends men to be killed in El Salvador," Sinnott said, "and you know what he said when hundreds of U.S...
...We are the wrong people of the wrong skin on the wrong continent and what in the hell is everybody being reasonable [for...
...We're going to see Mose and Mosella...
...Thus we shall propose an opening towards a neutral listening to what is intentioned as essential in the evolution of the child's self-development...
...Is that true...
...I reached out for them...
...Thus the great mass of socio-philosophical culture of religious, military, political and economic currents will be reviewed...
...For example, the theorization of K. Marx or of S. Mill will be examined so as to verify whether they are considerations objectifying a context or the rationalized sublimation of a duty exhibitor of a collective complex...
...These men and women had some very ugly beliefs in the past...
...Considering the fact that politics is the complexual projection of an unconscious network capillarized and then manifested by permanent protagonists, and considering the fact that any policy functional to man is possible only if it is administered by true men, and that until these exist, the man project is impossible for any culture, it follows that the solution is strictly dependent on a pedagogical act: to bring a child to acquire reality on the historical plane in accordance with the projection of his ontic in se...
...If then from what is elaborated by the Congress an alternative proposal to the current politics should emerge, this will be the merit and decision of others who have the Promethean capacity to incarnate the soul as the mundane history of the Being...
...The official, Marshal of Aviation Aleksandr I. Koldunov, a deputy Defense Minister, said the destruction of the plane was a feat of arms comparable to the shooting down of the American U-2 spy plane in 1960...
Vol. 17 • July 1984 • No. 7
