Thursday, March 29, 2012

Any government can be criticized. Since all governments are structured as a relation between the top and the bottom, wherein the top always governs and the bottom is always governed, it is inevitable that the government will be criticized. Nevertheless, in todays post-modern world, one must recognize the limitations of linguistic criticizm. The Linguistic Turn has rendered language suspect. Hence, any governmental critique must allow for the loss of the representational nature of language. Language has lost its representational grasp; it lacks the authority it once had. Consequently, if we begin a critique about the top, we must begin with abstractions and we must continue the criticizm in an abstract manner. Instead, we begin at the bottom. Of course, we can also begin in an abstract manner, but we don't have too, and thats the whole point to a real democracy. The bottom is also concrete and as an originating point of departure of our critique, we can begin in a concrete manner and thereby include each and every individual constituting the body politic in a real way.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Creative Commons License
Democracy For The Bottom by Gilbert Gonzalez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.