Let’s Do the Unexpected
One of our great needs right now is the ability to imagine alternatives to the current economic and political order, and it is precisely the need to practice this ability which is being contested “behind the scenes” of terror, repression, and vindictive counter measures. The prevailing assumption of the West is that the current political and economic situation, while not perfect, is the best one possible. Therefore, some dissent is allowed, but any fundamental re-examination is considered foolish by the testimony of failed revolutions (from which the history of the US’s own revolution is excluded). However, when faced with the deaths of three-thousand neighbors, how can I not see this as a sign of a fundamental problem? To shirk from self-examination as a nation is to disregard the suffering and deaths of our friends and neighbors. We owe them, ourselves, and the world more than blind revenge. We owe them a renewed imagination, and a new political and economic self.
With that in mind, we invite you to participate in Let’s Do the Unexpected. The practice of making, and perhaps listening to, unexpected music is just a discipline that springs out of and leads back into much more fundamental mental questioning. Let’s make another hermeneutical cycle.