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Title: Welfare and Misfortune Author: Okty Budiati Date: Spring 2021 Language: en
Time has brought me back to turning the freeze, inviting me,
contemplating something about a mirror over chaos and destruction, the
innerlijke conflicten.¹ About the arc getting ready to drop into every
part of anatomy; a fragile body that is collapsed even more.
I thought about the koninklijke landmacht.² It is deja-vu in the
contemporary, as in repetition, conveying a series of phenomena about a
story that I have never understood. When was it begun, and where was it
to end? Even so it is a running story as history. I just understand that
there are stories that aren’t completely finished.
I only understand that there is a delusion of romance that is still
infused within neo-feudalism. Truly human mental impasse stands, taking
refuge in the futuristic architectural imagination. I live in a country
where the people are still primitive. Humans as unique beings with their
individual personas are pricked with millions of values as invaliden
people.
“It is true that the affirmation of individual sovereignty is logically
precedent to protest against authority as such. But in practice they are
inseparable. To protest against the invasion of individual sovereignty
is necessarily to affirm individual sovereignty – as individual
sovereigns have we any constructive work to do, though as progressive
beings we have plenty of it. But, if we had perfect liberty, we might,
if we chose, remain utterly inactive and still be individual
sovereigns". (Individual Liberty, Benjamin Tucker)
Understandably, if we had perfect liberty, we might, if we chose, remain
utterly inactive and still be individual sovereigns. This emphasizes the
choice of humans to become a social part, to become individual
existence, and how it will not be separated from the perspective and
thinking that will shape its character as ethnographic code, as a
characteristic, as an anatomy in seeing their psycho-social. A social
order colonized in politics by fostering feudalist practices as the
ghost of ancient bourgeois tradition. This is grossly disgusting and, of
course, utterly silly over silliness.
I imagine how the nerves of the human brain such as visual matrix
engineering work as a hammer to choose between being a wise capitalist
or being a greedy capitalist. However, just a few days ago, I had a
serious conversation about current social conditions, that "it's all
about DNA, not the brain, if you analogize this network framework into
your point of view, biological anatomy", said my friend. I'm
speechless.... It could be, it's all about matricity, but I still feel
like an individual who has many flaws, even regarding knowledge. I'm not
going to lengthen the alphabet for the world matrix.
Crack'd across into numberless fragments.
The Prophetic wrath, struggling for vent,
Hurls apart, stamping furious to dust,
And crumbling with bursting sobs, heaves
The black marble on high into fragments.
(The Book of Los, by William Blake).
And, in Jakarta, it is approaching to anchor into another darkness, into
another crack, into another silence. “Society often forgives the
criminal; it never forgives the dreamer” (Oscar Wilde). Likewise, a new
culture of recognizing oneself about the phenomenon of estuary-origin,
planting incense sticks and sprinkling flowers all over the ground to
invoke a blessing by arousing the corpses of old thought, until we
ourselves forget, that revolt is not again about the axis of icons other
than revolt yourself as for the comatose society.
At the artificial islands, anatomy of love and peace, destroyed...⁴
Jakarta, February 24 – 2021
Footnotes
1. Innerlijke conflicten (Dutch), means konflik batin in Bahasa
Indonesia, or inner/internal conflict in English. It also alludes to the
psychosocial term during in between moment of the Independent Revolution
of Republik Indonesia, World War II, and the Cold War, as a moment of
identity crisis. This inner conflict is assumed as a code for
counterculture during those years, so I used post-Freudian theory and
perspective for the conflict issues. It’s mostly about trust and
mistrust issues, and surely, love and peace.
2. Koninklijke landmacht (Dutch) or Royal Landforce. The rise of
neo-feudalism is a continuing historical issue, stemming from the
Serikat Islam (SI) conflict.
3. This relates to my belief that life is sadness or sometimes a
beautiful painfulness.