Orwellian Emancipatory Jewels
                                                       
by
Franz J. T. Lee



Orwell Today: Personal Life Experiences
Part IV: 1979 - 2000 (Finale)

(This Chat I dedicate to my son, Franz Lee, Jr.)


31st October, 2000; (Slightly Corrected Version)


p a n d e m o n i u m
Tuesday Evening International AOL Chat

Carl (Teaneck, USA),
Iris (Freiburg),
Stella (Mainz),
Khalid (Toronto),
Steve (Vancouver),
Franz (Merida, Venezuela).

Prelude

You have just entered room "panta98 Chat52."
naranjahit has entered the room.
Einai2000 has entered the room.
naranjahit:Hi Iris!
Einai2000:Finally!!!!
panta98:Thats' better!!!
Einai2000:Steeeeeeeelllaaa!!
naranjahit:IIIIIIIIIIIiiiris!!!!!
Einai2000:Fraaaannnz!
Einai2000:And Carl?
panta98:  Trying to get you, Iris, I booted myself out -- and AOL did not want to load again!
naranjahit: Hi Franz!
panta98: Just a few seconds, I'll proceed inmediately. ....
naranjahit: Ok, waiting.
 

THE FUN BEGINS ....

panta98:This time, in our international chat, the chain of events between 1979 and today will mainly be reviewed from a praxical, from a theoretical perspective.
Einai2000:Can't even see my own two messages I sent off - they do not appear on my screen!!
Einai2000:...Ok! Now I read you, got the messages right now.
panta98:The personal data are very simple: between 1979 and 1983, I was lecturing at theUniversity of The Andes, Merida, Venezuela. During this period I got married for the second time; and our daughter, Nandi, was born in November, 1979.
Einai2000: Proceed... Good evening, Carl!
naranjahit: Carl, were is he? I can't read him!
panta98: Yes, there we go: Take off!!!
Einai2000: Franz. Invite Carl please!
panta98: Yes!
CarlzimC has entered the room.
Einai2000: I invited Carl already...
naranjahit: Finally, Hi Carl!
panta98: AOL is loca tonight!!!
Einai2000: Carl! Good Evening!
CarlzimC: Hi, guys.
Einai2000:To say the least, Franz!
panta98:The personal data are very simple: between 1979 and 1983, I was lecturing at theUniversity of The Andes, Merida, Venezuela. During this period I got married for the second time; and our daughter, Nandi, was born in November, 1979.
panta98:Yes, there we go: Take off!!!
Einai2000:But at least now your messages appear faster on my screen - please proceed, Franz.
panta98:Furthermore, just like in 1962, when I had to teach myself German, in 1979, I had to become conversant with the Spanish language.
panta98:Meanwhile, I speak, understand and can write in various tongues, among them: English, German, Spanish, Afrikaans, Dutch, Xhosa, Zulu, etc.
panta98:You speak English??? Nix verstehen!!!
CarlzimC: I'm trying to learn Spanish from the novelas on TV.
panta98: Jokes aside, I proceed. .... I tried to conscientize my students by introducing them into the principles of Marxism, into Praxis and Theory, and to gain their support for the anti-Apartheid movement and world revolution.
naranjahit: Oh I am missing the novelas;-)
panta98: Stellaaaaa!!!!
naranjahit: Proceed Franz!
panta98:proceeding. .... Of course, I did not get far, but too late I realized how much precious time and sweet energy I had wasted "on the desert air", throwing "pearls to swine", for practically nothing. I was still dreaming about getting back to Africa, and to serve my people.
panta98:I was still on the "my people" delirious trip, still in the coma of "mass education",still in the patriotic glory of revolutionary "strip-tease", still in the wonderful "human being" phobia, still stoned dead by "democratic human rights" , still tight and drunken, filled to the brim, with the ideological mentholated spirits of hope and belief.
CarlzimC:You had good company.
panta98: OK! Iris!
CarlzimC:During that period, many of us believed that.
panta98:Yes, I was still in tune with Radio Amnesty International, "Misereor", "Brot fuer die Welt", "Red Cross", "Economic Aid", etc.
panta98:Sincerely: May the Good Old Lord Bless All These Lovely People And Their Humanistic Dedication! What I say, is not personal, it is institutional.
panta98:However, also: Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing!
panta98:Hence, in 1983, I accepted a professorship in political science, and off we flew to Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Luckily, it was not necessary to learn a new language again, for example, Ibo, Hausa or Yoruba.
Einai2000 has left the room.
naranjahit:I will invite Iris.
panta98:I'll proceed.
panta98:However, Nigeria was not that what I thought, what I dreamed about. I was right back to experience "racism", this time the "black" version. Most Nigerians found me too "white" to be a South African revolutionary. Just like most Venezuelans find me too"gringo" to be a "bolivariano".
panta98:How do you like that?
CarlzimC: Halloween. When doorbell rings, I give candy to trick or treaters.
naranjahit: It is "haarsträubend".
panta98:In Heaven they'll find me too hellish; and in Hell they'll find me too heavenly! Poor me!!!
panta98:I'll have to go eternally to Purgatory!!!
panta98:Proceeding. ...
naranjahit: Strange!But this is how it functions: divide et impera.
panta98:I was given my ideological "racist colour" already, imprinted by everybody in my very soul; nobody was patiently virtuous enough, waiting for me to show my true rainbow colours. The bridegroom, Big Brother, was smiling everywhere. 1984 had arrived, yes, long ago already, only practically nobody had put oil in their mental lamps in time.
panta98:My "people" just saw foreign implanted, alienated apparitions, appearances, phantoms, phantasms, phantasmagoria; victoriously, as usual, colonialism, racism and neocolonialism triumphed, had blotted out nearly all original forms of thinking and thought already.
panta98:This has not changed much in the 21st century; in fact. the emancipatory illiteracy and ignorance are more en vogue than ever before; in spite of the permanent bombardment of tons and tons of "information".
panta98:Of course, the socio-economic conditions were deteriorated, and Nigeria was heading towards a next military coup; with last minute arrangements, hurriedly we left, and in 1984, I was back again in Venezuela , where meanwhile a "Black Friday" had left the country economically in shambles.
panta98:I was a real "globetrotter"!
panta98:In 1988, Franz Jr. was born, thereafter, in my Sabbatical year, I left to teach at the Universities of Frankfurt and Darmstadt.
panta98:And, again, the next marriage broke up. The reason for all these tragedies a sweet Guyanese woman, Anne, once revealed to me; "Your burden is too heavy for me to carry!"
panta98:Well, at last, I got some explanation for my misfortune.
panta98:I was already beginning to doubt my exotic traits and attributes.
panta98:Stella, Carl. Any comments???
CarlzimC:How would the military coup in Nigeria have affected you?
naranjahit:This woman - it seems that she understood a little bit....
panta98:Well, a military coup in these countries, could end up like in Argentina, Chile or Rwanda.
naranjahit:I sent a invitation to Iris.
Einai2000 has entered the room.
CarlzimC:Do you think they'd arrest a college professor? They didn't in Argentina, Chile or Rwanda
CarlzimC:Hi, Iris'
panta98:I might not have been alive today anymore -- anybody with a critical mind is a victim!
Einai2000: Hi again, Carl, Stella & Franz.
Einai2000:Ok, I'm trying to join the boat, Franz.
Einai2000:The messages, at least, come in a little faster now.
panta98:Proceeding. ...
CarlzimC: accepted by black African leadership. Incorrect assumption.
panta98:Of course, I still had my old stalwart friends, like Axel and Khalid, but new "hornets" appeared on the scene, defending the bulwark of emancipation, you know them all, you all know yourselves, Jutta, Iris, Stella, Simon, Christoph, Martin, Maybelli, etc.
CarlzimC:Please, proceed.
panta98:Of course, the "spirit of the times" also changed; the "Cold War", the Berlin Wall, the "Iron Curtain", and the Apartheid "Colour Bar" vanished; another kind of youth, who did not experience the turbulent '60's, are making their day. Blind-foldedly, some follow their maximum leader; consciously, others abhor all versions of "leaders".
Einai2000: ...and Carl!
CarlzimC: Thanks, Iris
panta98:Also, the means of communication changed, the Information Age was ushered in, Internet became "cool", became "in". And therewith, Carl, Jeff, Bill, Steve, Scott and Vic, Len and Dan, Cairn and Mr. Jimmy; all made and make their variegated appearance and intellectual contributions on the Global Cyber-Stage.
panta98:There they are all, Iris! Cool & His Gang! The Cool Gang!!!
Einai2000: Coooool :-)
CarlzimC: Yep.
naranjahit: The gang!:-)
CarlzimC: Cool Crew!
panta98:In fact, the Millennium Of Excellence, of Transcendence, faces us. The "quantum" leap from Revolution to Emancipation is on the order of the day.
panta98:Very early, at the beginning of the 90's, we began smelling rats all over, the morbid, rabid stench of rattiest reform and revolution. We saw Red! We began to superate not only the three "R's", but everything related to a formal-logical or dialectical "R = R"or "R and Non-R".
panta98:In nuce, we declared a Cosmic "War" against rabid "Religion", against rattiest "Reform", against rapacious "Rebellion", against reckless "Revolution", against reigning "Reason".
panta98:We wanted to have nothing to do, neither with the one nor the other.
panta98:We were sick of unilaterality, unity, uniqueness, uniformity, Unilever, Universe, Universality, University; in a nutshell, sick and tired of "Great Ideas", of "Great Gods", of "Great Men", of "Great Leaders", of "Great People", of "Great Races", of"Great, Big Brothers".
panta98:We just did not feel ourselves to be "great", we were searching for diversity, triversity, relation, dimensionally, trimensionality, for otherness, for difference, for spherence; in short, for Wisdom, for Excellence, for Emancipation.
panta98:We noticed that there are different, variegated types of "human beings"; but that they all have something in common, something identical. In this world, in this system, all of them work or labour.
Einai2000:Agreed... please proceed...
panta98:We realized that we could identify them by their acts, their actions, their work, their labour. For sure, everybody has a task to perform; we don't want to interfere in the labour force. The people, the country, the continent, the world, have to prosper. Go on working, ride on, giddy up, cowboy, we have a world of giga-profits to gain!
Einai2000:Yes.
panta98:Yes, Carl.
panta98:In front of the eyes of our critical minds, we saw the great labour parade; beggars, lumpen, altar boys, pimps, gangsters, police-men, secret agents, thieves, slaves, menial labourers, serfs, house-wives, farm hands, physical workers, etc., ...
panta98:... practically all of them vegetating in the Unemployment or Death Fund or in the Pray & Toil Factory, for themselves, producing a Nearly Next To Nothing, a meagre pittance.
panta98:We noticed that others think for them, order them, that others perform a different kind of labour: intellectual labour; either producing ideology or intellectual private property.
panta98:We saw students, professors, intellectuals, humanists, poets, teachers, artists, writers, priests, theologians, reporters, historians, etc., most of them working in the cultural "Mind & Thought Control" Factory, producing Ideology & Zombie Merchandise.
panta98:Then we took note of the engineers, technicians, biologists, pharmacists, geneticists, nano-technologists, physicists, mathematicians, economists, managers, etc., of their special intellectual labour, and realized that nearly all of them are working in the Technological ABC Factory of Genocide, producing high-tech goodies.
panta98:hen, we looked at some "human beings", who judged on their "face value" don't seem to "work" or "labour" hard at all: the Popes, the armchair philosophers, the State ideologues, CEO's, Directors, Presidents, Statesmen, Paramount Chiefs, Sheikhs, "communists", "terrorists", Illuminati, Fascist and Nazi Fuehrer, etc.
panta98:However, after serious thought, we came to the very interesting conclusion that all of them work, all of them labour: many to a certain level, less to a certain degree, and very few to a certain mension.
Einai2000: Sauber, Franz!
panta98:The absolute majority works very hard, are economically exploited, politically dominated, socially discriminated and humanly alienated. They act, some intellectualize.
panta98:An infinitesimal few labour even harder: they exploit economically, they dominate politically, they discriminate socially and they alienate the whole human species.A few still intellectualize, the rest of them rationalize, rationalize power, capital and profits.
panta98:Well, more to come. ... I'm in form tonight!!! Ride On! Franz .....
panta98:So there we have the whole bunch of labourers of Plato's Republic, of Hobbes' Leviathan, of Huxley's Brave New World: the damned physical toilers, the doomed intellectual labourers, and the glorified rational exploiters. All working hard like hell, for hell, but would never ever go to hell.
panta98:Agreed? D'accord?
Einai2000:Oh, Franz, agreed  ...
naranjahit: Shure -agreed!
panta98:We saw the labour essence of "Life", of "History", of "Progress", of "Democracy" of the "Future", unfolding in front of the fearful eyes of our tearful mind. We saw omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent Alienation at work.
panta98:We saw the "historic" labouring forces parading in front of the historic stool of final scientific-philosophic, emancipatory judgement.
panta98:And then, jacta est alea, the famous penny fell, that new, authentic, original "Eureka" feeling tantalized, energized, transcendentalized us.
panta98:Now we have discovered Goethe's Pudelskern, the Magic Wand, the Lamp of Aladdin:We Do and Think and Excel, All Of, By and For Ourselves, Here, Now, Forever!!
panta98:This isnow our story, thephenomenology of our minds. ....
panta98:We became aware of the multiplicity of reality, of realities, about other levels, degrees, mensions and spheres of history -- about things until undreamed of.
naranjahit: Yes, that is what we also saw! Rainbows!
panta98:Yes! Raindrops & Rainbows keep falling on our heads, on our seat of wisdom!!!

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