Negative Dialectics

For those who might mistake clear-headed critical thinking for mal-contented negativism:

In a society that produces negative effects on the lives of human and other species that nonetheless, in its arrogance and hubris, ignorantly mistakes its mores and values as positive, the only positive reaction is to take the negative position to the false-positive status quo. An informed pessimism, in regard to the realized as well as the potential outcomes of a decaying civilization, can therefore be interpreted as the only possible logical positive position in standing against the degenerate norm....i.e., a negative dialectics..... (for more on this and on the culture industry 'google' Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer)

Bear this in mind the next time you find your disdain boiling up inside of you upon encountering one who you might normally knee-jerk into judging as "so negative" or "always bitching about society" or "just unhappy about the way they have failed in the system" .....consider first the reasons, the evidence, the experiences, and the motives of those who you would hastily and ignorantly mis-judge.........however, it could very well be that you are way too far gone.....lost in the dream....asleep at the wheel....swept away by your imagination of your self and your illusions of security and suck-cess...lost in a dream that is a lie that you have been fooled into so whole-heartedly believing in such that you are a more fitting perpetual victim of the powers for whom you function as mere 'livestock' for the harvest.

No matter who we are or the importance that we imagine ourselves to possess, we are, every last one of us, very disposable and easily replaced by a new power-suckling piglet.

Who and what do you support by your participation, compliance, ignorance, silence, apathy, and fear? What do your prejudice and condemnation tell about your ideological investments? Are you willing to shovel society's 'misfits' 'dissenters' 'revolutionaries' and 'undesirables' into the ovens in order to keep a low profile and subsist within a system of unfair advantage and exploitation of human bodies, hoping that your number doesn't come up and believing that it couldn't possibly happen to you?

Do you realize that without the 'deviance' of an Edison, an Einstein, a Pasteur, a Jesus, a Buddha, or a Marx that we would still be huddled atop a festering heap of our own shit and piss at the back of some stinking cave somewhere, stupidly and ignorantly freezing to death and rotting away through physical, emotional, and spiritual diseases we cannot possibly begin to imagine because we had killed off any and all 'mal-content' 'negative-minded' 'assholes' who dared suggest we might go outside to defecate and that we might build a fire upon our return?

"Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control." (Bill Hicks)