Changing ideology without changing the culture that creates ideology changes little. In those rare moments that it happens, the content of a specific brain may be modified ever so slightly. Unfortunately, the context that produced the content is unaffected by that moment.
For the past week or so, P6 has exemplified black sensibility like Spence channelling Rudyard Kipling spoke to last week. I watched this thread with the same fascination I experienced as a boy growing crystals. At any moment, the delicate balance he was working might break. I'm afraid a bull came stomping through the lab this morning and broke the balance in the promethean crucible.
Inspired by this tableau, I wrote a few notes about crystallisation and the difficulty of genuine change.
I learned a lesson too: never respond to comments before having coffee. As I consider it now it may have been possible to continue had I responded to both participants at once.
Posted by: P6 at December 15, 2004 06:23 AM