question [about this shit] #1
a question on the problem with the question “what should we do [about this shit]?[1]”
the question that asks / calls for / entices someone to stand up with an answer is a problem because of its belief in an answer.
what we see as fucked [about this shit] is always fucked by design & designers who have / value an answer & this, in turn, fucks two-fold the honest question “what should we do [about this shit]?”
one-fold: anyone who stands up to answer, who thinks they possibly can answer, who thinks they possibly have an answer, must be, by design of the shit, part of the palliative care unit.
two-fold: a motherfucker with an answer is often what got us into this shit in the first place.
so, now, here we are left asking how you ask an honest question [about this shit] that doesn’t ask for an answer?
question [about this shit] #2
a question on the problem of how to ask an honest question [about this shit] that doesn’t ask for an answer?
i, too, am disturbed with the perverse desire to answer this question, to run along the hardwires of this shit & make some type of statement, but let us not be motherfuckers. instead, let’s listen & disturb / bother this question a bit:
with a little tracking backward (no, not brutal techno backtracking) we can trail answer:
to ant-swear
to before-an oath to god
to before-the profane
which seems to make the most sense in our sense; no?
with a little seeking (& some ignoring) we can read that question has nominalized:
a philosophical problem
a difficulty
a torture
which seems to make the most sense in our sense; no?
so let’s reconfigure & disturb our question into a new torture only asking for the profane: where [about this shit] is torture being profaned?
question [about this shit] #3
a question on the problem of where [about this shit] is torture being profaned?
who knows the best profaners? who knows those gathered together in dens of thieves practicing ways to steal away out of this shit, out of our ways of thinking & asking [about this shit]?
who is hearing the omm boom ba boom? who is paying tribute to muskrat’s sacrifice? who is searching for the screaming in favorite things?
who is making oatmeal & worlds each morning for the last six decades? who is writing whereas loudly about silent apologies? who is building a concrete tent to classroom the writing of a collective dictionary?
who is bellowing forth gratitude about flowers at a time like this? who is wearing wings singing from places beyond our orbit? who is writing poems about the fugitive harvest between the sugar canes?
who is squatting in an art museum?
who is holding true to the future potlatch?
(& these only sprint into my slow mind at the moment of asking this question)
who knows the profaners you know?
won’t you share?
won’t you, please, share & talk with us?
[1] as heard asked by fred moten