House of Paine

the phenomenology of the red enterprise:recollection department

  hey

paris 1848 
             1871

soviet 1905
             1917 
 
 

the shanghai commune 1967  

these are all 
  whale sized stages 
of the red global enterprise

right?

lets assign ourselves 
the task
  to  recollect 

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we got all these past stages 

but nope 
 there 
is no   general form of the stage

no  closed form 

nth  stage formulation  is possible 

history reveals her details one chunk  at a time 

the future 
      is 
 not availible by induction 

we can only  
look back  
review 
the line of march
 stage by stage   

and hope to  sketch  
a  useable stylized pardigmatic 
blue printing the necessary moments 
of our particular set of stage successions    


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this
is a history of the  becoming 
of the red enterprise 
presents itself
as a slow moving succession of stages 

slow because 
each stage
 must penetrate and digest itself fully 

one new stage   

one new  self concious mediation
needs one new history of before now 

 to   succeed  the last

yes its surely true 
that 
as the spirit of the great red enterprise 
         empties 
 its self out 
          thru time 
         each new paradigm
in the " immediacy"     
           of its new existence 
has to start  afresh 
as if
 for it 
all that proceeded it were lost 
                   and nothing had been learned 

but then must come recollection.....
history produced again as a new self mediation 

the red spirit may start afresh 
and apparently
from its own resources 
but it is none the less 
starting on a higher level 
and must dig down to recover 
all the  floors below 
down to the very foundations 

thankfully
history is not all found 
                    in one mans head 
as emerson mis-believed 

nor is it all lost 
if some remains uncovered 

the task of recollection
is huge beyond simple measure 

 
the treasured tale 
 is scattered  everywhere 
    buried deep
 inside  6 billion ultimately 
                     distinct souls
all drinking in at once 
all pissing out at once