In this time of desperation history has left us with out agency.
History is a mediated and reified space/discourse/discussion that is continuously being referred to as we seek desperately for change. I would like to purpose however, that as the VDC continues to grow and bring in different communities that history is left at the front door.
OK, I know this sounds crazy. But as I heard a friend continuously compare today to the 60s... I noticed that they spoke as if we could never accomplish what was once accomplished. And I realized they spoke that way not because we cannot make change but because we assume that change was written/filmed/mediated into a story or a history. We are continuously perpetuating the "spectacle" (assumed cultural roles (that is kind of what spectacle means)) in our everyday interactions and it is time we stop and rupture our own everyday.
So I ask that we dream of the future and creatively struggle with tactics to make it happen rather then reflect on how it was once achieved. I say this as the President of an organization (IVAW Chicago) that is rooted in a tradition and history that has been erased. I crave for that history to become apart of the culture of the everyday. However, I don't think it will ever become apart of the everyday unless we (all of us) declare our own agency. An agency that has no need for historical value but instead has only a value in the process of change.
We have to value our thoughts, ideas, and imagination and share it with the communities that surround us in order to break through the obedience of late capital..
So I say creativity and imagination instead of history...