ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Debt Of Developing Countries, David Graeber, Heteronormativity
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Story the ones who walk away from omelas . Society: cannot be happy without unhappy (homeless?) The ways in which these 3 things interact tells us about how we distribute life and death. Tense: all the things in our broom closet are there because of how we understand tense. We don"t care about the right now - we are not engaged with it. We are engaged with the future anterior in which everything will have been "worth it". At some point it will have all made sense and been worth it. Event: there isn"t an event in the story of omelas. No tsunami, no genocide, no 9/11, just what she calls the ordinary chronic and cruddy dispersal of suffering - broom closets are this. No one thing we can organize our ethics around, it happened for these and these reasons and now the event is over. We"ll care if you can be spectacular for us, if there"s an event .
