CORRESPONDENCE: FRANZ & KHALID
Labour Day, 2000
Hello Khalid!
Every Labour Day, I always send you a S.O.S. May Day,
May Day!- Message.
This time it is the Millennium Labour Message. Well,
let's get down to Business!
What an excellent way to celebrate May Day as part
of the army of unemployed!
Let's gaff a while about anything and nobody.
"I'm nobody, who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there's a pair of us.
Don't tell -- they'd banish
us, you know."
Emily Dickinson
Well, there we are: "Two Rivulets side by side".
Where's the champagne? What's there to celebrate? The
Industrial Revolution?
Perhaps the French Revolution? Or better the 1830
and 1848 Revolutions? Who
knows, even the Russian, Chinese, Yugoslavian, Cuban
Revolutions? Workers of the World, Unite!!
Come on, let's celebrate!!
Yeah! We're celebrating Labour, it's Day! We're glorifying the world system, a man's world. Welcome to the Global Festival, to the New World Order, to the World State! Let's venerate the Victory of Labour and Capital over Billions!
It's so strange how long it takes for a penny to fall,
to have that rare Eureka feeling.
And once it falls, a straight, profulgent Milky Way
of knowledge, understanding and wisdom appears in the Draculian, Draconian
bodeful gloom of industrial smog and smoke. The traveling, profluent truth
is so simple, so easy to embark, and yet, for decades, we were befogged,
beclouded, beblubbered. We did everything so dilly-dally, we thought everything
so shilly-shally.
So belittled we were, that we defended with our very
life everything that concerns "human life", that concerns work and labour.
We went to war to defend the fatherland, we joined the army, the police
force, the FBI, CIA, BOSS, KGB, etc.
We were always "pro", proudly we attacked any
enemy who was sowing dissension, contradiction, communism and terrorism.
We told everybody not to smoke pot, to perform daily strenuous physical
exercises to get a "flex appeal", not to smoke cigarettes, not to drink
so much coffee, not to eat eggs which contain cholesterol; like a herd
of sheep, we chased everybody to the doctor, to devour dozens of pills
daily. We worked, we laboured for Capital; we were the front-line defence
of the global system.
Now, from the majestic profundity of the Milky Way,
we look "back", "sidewards", "ahead", and we can't "believe" that that
was us, that this is what we were. But coins don't fall every day; and
the more sophisticated mind and thought control become, progressively,
three coins are dropped into industrial fountains, into oil wells, where
they never ever fall on "fertile soil". Everybody, except the unemployed
paupers, the
"lumpen-sub-infra-humans", works, and yet nobody has
got an idea, not even a foggy notion of what Labour is, what it is all
about.
Is it a Holy Cow? Is it Jahwe's "Curse"? Is it Satan's
work? Is it an Illuminati invention? Is it natural? Is it the sense of
life? Is it a miscarriage of Mother Nature?
Is it the Essence of Human Life? Is it the "root of
all evil"? Is it that, what makes a Man a Man? Is it something honourable?
Nobody dared to tackle this "Holy Cow" by the horns, to really milk it, and to dissipate it's dairy products into "Holy Smoke", to reveal its exploitative, dominating, discriminating and dehumanizing essence. Not even Marx, the "Marxists", the Neo-Marxists and the Post-Marxists dared to touch this four-legged Golden Calf; they made some progress, they indicated that Labour is alienated, but they could not see through the milky smoke-screen of white ideology, that Labour is Alienation per se.
Knowing this, seen from the evergreen "grass roots" and from the sempiternal rainbow beauty of the Milky Way, at last, in the "Year 2000", we could re-do, re-flect, re-vise, and re-think our modus vivendi et operandi , but not for a moment should we forget the Manimal Principle; even if someone sees us, sees us changing into jaguars, panthers, cheetahs, eagles or condors, in front of her/his very own eyes, yet (s)he cannot tell this profluent, profulgent Truth to anybody, dead or alive: nobody, not even Satan or God would believe such mundane madness. This is our "secret", this is the logical method in our scientific a n d philosophic "madness", it forms part of the very Essence a n d Existence AND Excellence of the trialogical Invisible, Invincible Principle. Hence, forget about working hard for the revolution, for the labouring classes, about conscientizing or convincing anybody of anything; who is already on our galactic orbit, just needs solidarity, love and care. This is my May Day! May Day! Millennium Message !!!
O Captain! My Captain! Let's take a small sip from the "Eternal Ocean" of Truth and Wisdom, let's return to the two "nobodies", to the Two Rivulets flowing side by side. Walt Whitman dialectical-dialogically described them as follows:
"Two Rivulets side by side,
Two blended, parallel, strolling
tides,
Companions, travelers, gossiping
as they journey.
For the Eternal Ocean bound,
These ripples, passing surges,
streams of Death and Life,
Object and Subject hurrying,
whirling by,
The Real and the Ideal.
Alternate ebb and flow the
Days and Nights,
(Strands of a Trio twining,
Present, Future, Past.)
In You, whoe'er you are, my
book perusing,
In I myself - in all the
World - these ripples flow,
All, all toward the mystic
Ocean tending.
(O yearnful waves! the kisses
of your lips!
Your breast so broad, with
open arms, O firm, expanded shore!)"
Lovely Greetings,
Franz.