Chris Hayes made an argument on his MSNBC show \u201cUp\u201d that the Occupy movement demonstrates a more effective, inclusive form of government in their nightly town hall type discussions than is demonstrated in the \u201cSuper Committee\u201d that was setup to address debt concerns.\u00a0 He viewed the Super Committee as an example of elitist power broking.\u00a0 While this apparent opposition certainly has its merit it also invites a more thoughtful analysis of the dynamics at play in this opposition.<\/p>\n
To start, let\u2019s think about the Up program.\u00a0 Chris has guests on for segments and frequently replaces the guest with other guests.\u00a0 While I am sure that all the guests would like to stay on for the whole program an executive decision is made based on limitation; time and relevancy prescribes the agenda.\u00a0\u00a0 In any organization a certain kind of economy must be preserved to maintain the viability of the organism.\u00a0 Any democracy must harness the focus gained through the congealing of power to prioritize and preordain a practical solution to the problem of diffusion.\u00a0 Diffusion is the dissolution of power, the breakdown of praxis, the convalescence of action.\u00a0 Its ultimate political outcome is anarchy, the loss of origin, the opening onto infinity.\u00a0\u00a0 It is the potentiality for suspension of power, the pause of reflection, the existential moment (kairos) of suspension.<\/p>\n
In any democracy an undercurrent of power must, of necessity, assert itself endlessly.\u00a0 Democracy and power require a symbiosis, a tension of form (peros) and chaos (aperion) \u2013 an economy.\u00a0 Power preserves the past.\u00a0 It provides an ever changing narrative for relevance and origin.\u00a0 It is the sustenance of purpose and affect.\u00a0 It retains and bounds the infinite.\u00a0 It scribes and pre-scribes a sophistical system of signs that gather together a pseudo \u2018totalism\u2019, a \u2018worldhood\u2019 wherein what comes-to-be is allowed or disallowed.<\/p>\n
Democracy is the breakup of power.\u00a0 It seeks to make the other relevant.\u00a0 It is not a substitution of one kind of power for another but a kind of darkness that limits the circumspection of light.\u00a0 Power, the virility of sight defines and limits.\u00a0 It measures and retains.\u00a0 Democracy breaks and recoils.\u00a0 It casts dispersions on frame and reference.\u00a0 It is the kairos that interrupts the succession of chronos (http:\/\/mixermuse.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/08\/the-problem-of-logic\/).\u00a0 \u00a0Democracy dissolves \u2018heterogony\u2019 and hierarchy and as such, is chaos, aperion, infinity.\u00a0 It must always be taken hostage once again for production and re-assimilated into yet another moment (chronos), an occasion for, a repetition of economy.\u00a0 Democracy cannot be in itself and power can.\u00a0 Even as anarchy, power must certainly and inevitably re-inscribe, subjugate and define.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Education, the sublime ideal preserved as Greek and taken up as enlightenment is the Academy that seeks to once again measure, the good and the sophistical, the better idea, the critical examination of \u201cfacts\u201d, the hule of brute materiality, the eternal, the time proven retention of certainty.\u00a0 Science, the fruit of scientific method, the proven of the profound, the indisputable of knowledge and the inclusion of democratic method has yet to fade from the germinated seed of Greek thought.\u00a0 Education is the promise of preserved democracy, an economy of the truly true and the eternal beauty of Greek cheerfulness.\u00a0 It asserts itself on the basis of \u2018falsifiability\u2019 as opposed to doxa and dogma.\u00a0 It holds to the claim that the unaccountable other will be brought to account, settled in its infinity and preserved in its anarchistic totality – thus, the conundrum, the riddle of infinite concern, the passion for the absurd.\u00a0 Education restores the living beauty that power idolizes and thus corrupts.\u00a0 It is the good beyond being.\u00a0 It promises unity in its manifold.\u00a0 When all can be doubted only what cannot be doubted remains.\u00a0 An educated electorate is the heroic and final destiny (telos) of democracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The problem with the beatific vision of education is its substantive congealing of meaning.\u00a0 Every great myth must re-produce itself in its destruction.\u00a0 It is the gaze of Orpheus.\u00a0 It must be a fetish-tic fascination for the infinite.\u00a0 The clay feet of education thought in \u201cStructures of Scientific Revolution\u201d by Thomas Kuhn maintains a perpetual revolution of the same.\u00a0 Inertia, the resistance to a change in momentum, is no stranger to education as congealing, convalescence and dissolution is the dunamis of power.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Light can never finally preserve light in a greater light.\u00a0 Light and the \u2018presents\u2019 that presence can only perpetually preserve its founding over and against its nemesis.\u00a0 The pitched battle of form and chaos, peros and aperion, syntax and semantics can never be resolved into an ultimate unity.\u00a0 Democracy can never win out against power.\u00a0 Education cannot end, only promise.\u00a0 Infinity, the other, cannot show itself as itself.\u00a0 Truth can never proceed beyond the moment of appropriation, Ereignis.\u00a0 In this malady of Error(1)* only Ethics(2)* as my responsibility to the other, my indebtedness to not-me, the voice that withdraws from monologue can hold in question the potency of power and the exasperation of light.<\/p>\n