[Xmca-l] A preliminary note

[mike cole]

Dear Colleagues



How wonderful it is to see xmca come alive again. Its amazing, really.
Locally in my privileged suburban neighbourhood, entirely unexpected,
genuinely new forms of sociality are springing up.  As an inveterate early
morning dog walker, it has been as if all the rains we have been getting
(not the dreaded drought we expected in February) have re-mediated
relations in a pro-social manner that extended out beyond the neighbourhood
into the surrounding town.  The common interest – the common belief that
what Beth is experiencing in Brooklyn awaits them and their families. So
better start developing some solidarity.



And what brought about this change?  The INeffciency of neo-liberal
Capitalism that indeed is killing people and is doing it in a manner
designed by the 1%. Right now. Never mind the miracles of post-industrial
modernity. And the poor/powerless/subordinated are getting ground into
sausage. Bernie Sanders is being celebrated for having made his program of
socialist reform precisely because the bastion of neo-liberal capitalism
has revealed itself in a way that everyone recognizes. Now what? Or as they
asked in a different time and place, what is to be done?



Your note, today, David, caught the MCA board in the middle of a longer
note spelling out a variety of changes that MCA is making to confront this
second “shock wave” that has hit our community.  A Re-generated XMCA still
has some older shock waves to deal with and a lot of in-our-faces wreckage
to confront. This crisis is not going away any time real soon.


I would like to respond more fully to the questions Greg raised and DAvid
responded to so extensively. But no more ethanol in the tank.


Thanks, Helen, for your invocation to the life of this fragile community.

Like all of you, I will be back as life permits.

mike

-- 
Being a social scientist is like being a geologist who studies rocks in a
landslide. Roy D'Andrade
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