!Christina's 5 questions
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agk's diary
16 June 2022 @ 03:41
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Happy 34th birthday SDF!!
written on GPD Win 1, waiting to find out
if I'm cleared for clinicals tomorrow
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I love to answer Christina's monthly questions, and
read others' answers. Her June questions:
gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/christyotwisty
1. What do you think we owe each other as human
beings?
Love. Even when we're mortal enemies, I think
we should love each other.
If we work for wages, we owe solidarity (a
kind of love) with other working people (even
when they suck) to each other as human beings.
We owe fidelity (a kind of love) to family, and
charity (a kind of love) to strangers. We
should free prisoners, pardon debts, not kill.
2. Has your active daydreaming or reverie ever man-
ifested a desire of yours?
I don't think it has.
3. What is one thing people would never know about
you just by looking at you?
I'm a sadist. In the bar scene I flagged black,
gray, or red from my left back jeans pocket.
4. If you could un-invent one thing, what would it
be?
Something to do with imperialism + resentment,
or industry + state power + war. Maybe debt.
5. What is the most profound experience you have
ever had with a stranger?
At 17, after the crowd left, the wet street
sparkled in the streetlights and remains of
fires. I stood beside one woman in a gas mask.
Engulfed in teargas we faced hundreds of riot
police behind the cattle fence. We didn't share
a language but both had experienced that day.
We nodded at each other, stepped towards the
police line together, stood firm.
Later we hid under a bush. I couldn't breathe
except close to the ground. We were found,
kicked hard like footballs, flopped limply,
entered their custody. They disappeared her in
an unmarked van. A commander spoke my language
to threaten, "If I see you, you'll find where
she went". Pushed rough from police line to
night street, I was lost, exhausted, scared,
far from home.
