I keep thinking about making plans, but some antagonism towards work, as well as participating in some reading groups has also inspired me to find ways that I DO want to work.
“The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence…” - Ella Jo Baker
Ella Baker had an audacity to dream big, but she also said the following:
"This may only be a dream of mine, but I think it can be made real.”
And there’s many interesting notes about the kinds of plans made by George Schuyler and Ella Baker from Irvin J. Hunt’s essay “May Things Fall Apart” (Looking at their interest in co-operatives in the 1930s)
"Planning for the collapse of the governing body was thus tantamount to remaking the body of the black public sphere, turning a collectivity organized around charismatic male leaders into one defined by gender-critical societies, each governing itself into ungovernability.”
Dr. Irvin Hunt went on to say that Ella Baker never wanted to be held up as an exceptional individual (like Biden did during his recent DNC speech) because the whole idea was to have each generation get to work in their time, not to rely on each older (usually male-centric) generation, and to be radically horizontal.
Then I looked up “Things Fall Apart” and I stumbled on this...
I kindof wanted to see it in inclusive language so I re-wrote it thus:
Visual art/ Literary arts/ Performing art/ Culinary art is one's constant effort to create for oneself a different order of reality from that which is given to you or me or any of us.
“Fugitive Planning” in Fred Moten & Stefano Harney’s terms involves “self-sufficiency at the social level, and it reproduces in its experiment not just what it needs, life, but what it wants, life in difference, in the play of the general antagonism”
(Honestly I have to re-read all that to figure out if I really understand it. I know it’s important somehow...)
So a Vision Board…
Maybe one can update what it is and how it works? So it can take in consideration:
- Bene Brown & Whole Hearted Living (See workshops based on it)
- The skepticism from one guy on 'Vision Boards'(even though he probably wants to sell you his version of an ‘Action Board’…)(the secondary title is mine)
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