Archives for March 2026

“How could the masses be made to desire their own repression?” was the question Wilhelm Reich famously asked in the wake of the Reichstagsbrandverordnung (Reichstag Fire Decree, February 28, 1933), which suspended the civil rights protections afforded by the Weimar Republic’s democratic constitution. " Ana Teixeira Pinto (E Flux, Male Fantasies: The Sequel) "The violence which has ruled over the ordering of the colonial world, which has ceaselessly drummed the rhythm for the destruction of native social forms and broken up without reserve the systems of reference of the economy, the customs of dress and external life, that same violence will be claimed and taken over by the native at the … [Read more...]

"The father society has collapsed. It's not so much that the father doesn't talk or pay support or has left the house, but rather that the image of the working, teaching father has faded from the mind. An image that has existed brightly in the mind for thousands of years has faded." Robert Bly (Forward to Society Without a Father Alexander Mitscherlich ) “Sometimes a man stands up during supper And walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, Because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his children say blessings on him, as if he were dead.” Rainer Marie Rilke (Sometimes a Man, Bly tr.) "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ... is my destroyer." Dylan … [Read more...]

"Freedom … ? The land of the free! This the land of the free! Why, if I say anything that displeases them, the free mob will lynch me, and that’s my freedom. Free? Why, I have never been in any country where the individual has such an abject fear of his fellow countrymen. Because, as I say, they are free to lynch him the moment he shows he is not one of them." D.H. Lawrence (Studies in Classic American Literature) "As the descendants of the Puritans and other godly Protestants, they will submit to religious teaching, but as Republicans they will have no priestcraft. … They say their prayers, and then seem to apologize for doing so, as though it were hardly the act of a free and … [Read more...]