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Mattie in the Dining Car

from Patti in the Dining Car by The Michael Character

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The scariest possibility for me
is that there is no cohesion to how we think
Our muddled ideologies
an idiosyncratic accretion of things that we believe

Post-revisions historians have shown*
that change and continuity over time
are driven by a lot of things
A non-determinist causality
but embedded in too many layers ever to fully unweave

So to what extent are our ways of thinking
post-rationalizations of what were gonna do anyway?
And to what extent do the ways we think
shape those actions in meaningful ways?
And to what extent do the ways we think
shape the narratives through which we make meaning?
And to what extent are the ways we think
subject to change from material pressures around us?
From contingent context?
From what goes on inside us
as well as what surrounds us?
And what then are the implications for
our capacity for collective political action?

Well the scariest possibility for me
is that there is no cohesion to how we think
Our muddled ideologies
an idiosyncratic accretion of things that we believe
that limit our capacity
to think and act collectively

*This is specifically a reference to the 'post-revisionist' school of US diplomatic history. The 'revisionist' school aka the 'Wisconsin School' included the likes of William Appleman Williams, Walter LaFeber, etc. and causally attributed US foreign policy to the prime mover of economic imperatives (ex: securing new markets). Post-revisionists challenged this with more complex accounts that filled out the interconnected matrix of historical causality. To render this in Marxian terms, for the revisionists, everything besides the economy is superstructural; for the post-revisionists, the superstructure feeds back into the base in complex ways that are difficult to parse.

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from Patti in the Dining Car, released December 15, 2023

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It's political music, whatever. Based in Boston, MA. Absolutely willing to drive very far to play for you and five of your vaguely alternative friends in your combination kitchen/laundry room. Hit me up. I'm fully serious.

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