re-defining, re-fining

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The Subversive's Dictionary - II
By Eamon Graham

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
I will not reason and compare:
My business is to create."
     - William Blake

Assimilation - The policy or process of conforming to the attitudes,
expectations and opinions of a dominant group, for the benefit of that group, so as to
be indistinguished from it, and thus undefined. As authentic existence
requires creative definition, assimilation is always an inauthentic process.
Non-conformity is the opposite of assimilation. Assimilationism is opposed to
pluralism.

Dissident - A non-conformist, one who refuses to conform to inauthentic or
reactionary authority, feelings, opinions and policies.

Diversity - Another name for pluralism. Diversity and plurality are the
necessary conditions for all human evolution and progress.

Humanism - Faith and fellowship with the human race as a whole, rather than
promoting the interests of only one section (labour unions, nationalism,
extreme feminism) or the chauvinistic discrimination in favor of one section (male
sexism or racism, for example). Humanism thus aligns itself with the interests
of all segments of humanity with no special emphasis on any particular group.

Pluralism - The peaceful coexistence, tolerance and encouragement of several
diverse and different social and cultural groups and points of view within a
society, as a necessary condition for that society's progress and
enlightenment. French Prime Minister Raffarin declared his animosity towards pluralism when
he stated "the Republic is not plural, it is indivisible" in defence of
reactionary anti-diversity legislation. Pluralism is also the attitude of
supporting multiformity as opposed to Statist uniformity.

The Pseudo-Enlightenment - A non-revolutionary movement of the 17th and 18th
century that believed it had found the answers to everything or soon would.
The Western bourgeois pseudo-revolutions of the 1700s were inspired by the
conclusions of the Pseudo-Enlightenment, many of which would be disproven just 200
years later.

Subversion - The creative process of completely undermining and overthrowing
existing inauthentic attitudes, beliefs and systems of society in the interest
of progress and enlightenment. Being a creative process, it must use creative
means,such as art, rather than destructive means, such as violence, or it
becomes merely an absurdity, and thus inauthentic itself.

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Hanuman Zhang, _Gomi no seito/sensei_ [HighSchool-level Student/Master of
junk]

"To live is to scrounge, taking what you can in order to survive. So,
since living is scrounging, the result of our efforts is to amass a pile of
rubbish." - Chuang Tzu/Zhuangzi, China, 4th Century BCE

"The most beautiful order is a heap of sweepings piled up at random." -
Heraclitus, Greece, 5th Century BCE

"...So what is life for? Life is for beauty and substance and sound and
colour; and even those are often forbidden by law [socio-cultural conventions].
. .Why not be free and live your own life? Why follow other people's rules
and live to please others?..." ~Lieh-Tzu/Liezi, Taoist Sage (c. 450- 375 BCE)

"Taoism in a nutshell: Shit Happens. Roll with the Punches. Hang 10 - Go
with the Flow!" - anon. California surferBeatnik, c.1950's/1960's

Voices of the Past:
http://advancement.uark.edu/pubs/Research_Frontiers/fall_2001/05_Feature1.html

At its peak, the Tang Dynasty (618-906 CE) of China a mixture of cultural
influences were reflected in the music of the times.People traveled from
other countries, including Japan, Mongolia, India, Korea & Turkey, to learn about
the Tang culture.But the multi-racial, multi-cultural era waned at the end of
the Tang.China,one of the greatest cultural & military powers in history,
began to close in on itself, the rulers closed the country's borders - fearing the
destruction of their civilization.The rich, diverse music of the Tang, along
with that of the surrounding cultures, was lost or destroyed. Bits have been
found & the rest is theory & re-construction...

"The whole world of musics and instruments lives around us....I am
interested in a 'transethnic,' a planetary music." - Lou Harrison ("...Europe is a
region he called Northwest Asia...")

The power of education & culture to transcend social and political
differences is still largely untapped...

Proud to be a Race Trader! Race & Culture Mixin' is the Future!