Trains/Transgression v. Deviance

linked & bordered by that silver chain which defines the pale of sensuality, transgression & vision. We share the same enemies & our means of triumphant escape are also the same: a delirious & obsessive play, powered by the spectral brilliance of the wolves & their children…. (wild children-bey) laws are often there for our own good supposedly but we rarely get to find out why this is actually so because they punish us, once again, for our own good or those around us, and we never find out what’s on the other side of the line. Howard Zinn’s Disobedience and Democracy (9 fallacies) is about transgressing laws, because laws in themselves have no intrinsic worth. “True, in the international sphere has been anarchy; but this is not anarchism (the deliberate elimination of government for cooperative living). It is, in fact, due to an excess of order in the national states, which under the rule of obedience to law are able to send their citizens again and again into the maelstrom of transnational murder, without the deterrent effect of civic resistance”. -17 Of THE STRANGER/THE OTHER: (on DOW protests v small local) …”is it not because we subconsciously distinguish between the identifiable children down the street (who move us) and the faceless children of that remote Asian land (who do not)?-21 TRANSGRESSION “We in America are so far removed from our own revolutionary tradition, and the abolitionist tradition, and also from the reality of suffering among other people, that we consider as unpardonable transgressions of law and order what are really mild acts, measured against the existing evils” p 22 (commensurate acts) (fifth fallacy- that our pol. structure is sufficient to remedy our current ills- “It would seem from the evidence, that whether black or white people occupy the posts of the American political structure, there is something about that structure which does not permit the necessary changes to take place.” P 57 “It is precisely because the ballet box and other standbys of high school civics are insufficient that the citizen in a democracy needs the weapon of civil disobedience…” p 68

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