to what extent does all the writing and all the takes and etc etc matter. i’m pawsitive it’s not nothing at all but i feel like overall so much of it is pointless wastes of effort
@aescling the thing you learn when you have done it enough is that most of the important things have already been said. in that sense it doesn’t matter because you’re really not contributing to human knowledge at all; you’re restating the same things over and over without ever translating into action—except to the extent that you are honing your OWN knowledge and your OWN understanding by thinking out loud, of course
what DOES matter isn’t coming up with new analyses but connecting people to the analyses we have, things which work and are understood, and using that as a base for organizing. this very rarely comes in the shape of a take; takes are counterrevolutionary in the sense that they appear disconnected from a lineage of revolutionary thought and obstruct rather than facilitate deeper exploration and study
@aescling i think there are ways in which CA drama can be used as illustrative of certain ideas in theory or revolutionary thought or whatever, but the important thing is the focus yk? the focus should be on becoming better scholars and better revolutionaries, and our analysis should always be in service of that or else it is useless to us
