‽istis ponders
many Rs and makes a resolution… (weekending August 7th 2021)
This week ‽istis has begun to meld and
synthesise many strands of thoughts – perhaps, possibly, maybe beginning to try
to weave a coherent narrative…? And the letter ‘R’ seems to resonate… a process
of reading, research, realisation, revelation, reification, iteration and reiteration that has continued for
years!
Essentially ‽istis wonders whether it
may be time for:
‽ a major critique and reappraisal: of apparent certainties and prevailing, dominant narratives; history/histories (not least of the ‘modern era’ - nation-making; exploration and expedition, discovery, claiming and naming; empire, political thought and action - governing and being governed; ethical and religious thought and action - perhaps supporting, fig-leafing, justifying, allowing; science and technology; social organisation, education, work, education, etc., etc.); of taken-for-granteds, assumptions, dominant models, methods, systems and structures – past and present; of power, of categorisation and typologies; of voice, of dominance, of this and the other, of us and them… all perhaps rooted in a constructivist/deconstructivist perspective and a belief that that which is constructed can be deconstructed?
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repentance… for the silencing, the oppression, the minoritizing, the
theft, the coercion, the humiliation, the displacement, the hegemony, the
acculturation, the forced assimilation, the cultural and linguistic suppression or denial, the exclusion, the destitution, the waste, the laying waste, the squandering, the extraction, the manufacturing and the consumption, the enrichment, the impoverishment, the weapons, the destruction, the rape, the death (premature, suicide, murder, through genocide, war, conflict, illness), the inequity and inequality?
‽ reparation, restoration, recompense, restitution… what might that look like and sound like?
And so, ‽istis wonders whether there
is the time or the ability to make the case and the will to take action that may be required - but is determined to try; to carry on imagining, pondering, wondering, describing and striving for what perhaps,
possibly, may be. To be continued…
©
Pistis
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