Saturday, November 15, 2008

I had a dream where I watched the tower fall from on top of it… someone else started to make it fall and I was on the roof with a large number of other people. For some reason, I ran towards the side of the roof that would have hit the ground first but I accidentally slipped because of something to do with my current state.. I slipped and a slid for a long time as the tower was already falling in the direction in which I was sliding… my feet finally hit the short wall on the edge of the building, giving the tower more momentum to fall and at that moment, people saw me , people who had been working on the tower as their job, people who depended on the employment of the tower for their living. There were 8-10 people who knew me as a fellow coworker and a few of those 8-10 who saw me at the moment I hit the edge.. For some reason, one or two of those people immediately blamed me for making the tower fall…Even though the tower was falling long before I slipped and hit the wall they blamed me for bringing about its collapse. How could that be? I spent a good part of the rest of the dream trying to convince people that I was not me who caused the initial collapse of the tower. But the crazy thing is this.. this was a real tower and it was easy to see that it was collapsing because of the angle and the time that it took for it to fall from my vantage point on top.. But in real life when you and I talk about ‘the system’ and the collapse of the system, we socially construct the system and it is not  100% clear the extent to which it is collapsing and where we locate ourselves within the tower (on the roof or close to the bottom levels). Can I still defend myself in real life by saying the system was already collapsing and I just slipped and lost control which cased me to hit the edge and further the momentum of the collapse? Or am I just as guilty as any other person trying to bring about a collapse because we are not sure what the tipping point is that will cause the system to begin to fall, unless it has already begun to do so..? There are still real people with real jobs depending on the system and I happen to be one of them, so not only am I in the tower, I am part of the tower itself.  Am I trying to bring about my own collapse? And lastly the whole metaphor of the tower is just an analogy for the way the system might be and we shouldn’t even think about the collapse as a falling tower because that is just some form of imagery I thought up in a dream.. what if the metaphor of revolution was  more like tilling the soil and planting seeds in order to make new and amazing things grow? 

8 comments:

Gordon said...

I need to know who can read this, i mean if it shows up looking ok.. I can read it just fine so let me know because I really want to keep posting this way and this is my last attempt to do so if it doesn't work out.. Other than that, tell me what you think!

Unknown said...

this is a really good post. everything in it read well and made sense after 1 read. i like it because it makes the reader think by asking a lot of questions.

i also like the idea of creating new metaphors about falling towers because when pepole think of falling towers they immediately think about 9/11.

Gordon said...

I just want be clear here, that I actually had this dream last night and I think that is kick ass

spineless liberal said...

I can barely read it

Mr. Self-Destruct said...

it hurts my eyes

Mr. Self-Destruct said...

In regards to the font though, whiter and brighter would be much appreciated. Cheers!

Mr. Self-Destruct said...

It sounds like all this bloggery has got your sub-conscious realm working overtime. Good.


Towers can be rebuilt. Hell, why does it even have to be a tower? Why does there even need to be a tower at all?

What if the soil being tilled is now dry and infertile?
Do we try to force growth out of the same soil, or do we change our diet completely?

spineless liberal said...

Do you guys want me to change the default font? I don't mind doing any new graphics either just tell me what you guys want changed and I'm on it