Inspired by a line in Simon Ensor’s blogpost above. I annotated the following riff from his line.
I engage in intellectual pursuits.
My response?
I engage in beastly pursuits.
Let us listen, deeply listen, to two versions of “The Beast in Me”.
I say let us know the beast in ourselves before we call it out in others. And when we know it in ourselves, let us name names and kick ass.
Here are the lyrics to the song in an editable embed if you want to explore the beast in you.
View the beast in me on Hackpad.
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Kevin
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Some responses pour tu.
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“Those who are against Fascism without being against capitalism, who lament over the barbarism that comes out of barbarism, are like people who wish to eat their veal without slaughtering the calf. They are willing to eat the calf, but they dislike the sight of blood. They are easily satisfied if the butcher washes his hands before weighing the meat. They are not against the property relations which engender barbarism; they are only against barbarism itself. They raise their voices against barbarism, and they do so in countries where precisely the same property relations prevail, but where the butchers wash their hands before weighing the meat.”
— Bertolt Brecht
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Yes, we want our savagery all made up and ready for the catwalk.