On Understanding the Derive of Relatives
Jeff Rubard
socialism", was related to three famous philosophers: a lineal
descendent of Maimonides, he of mean joke about Semitic languages: a
close relative of Hegel, whose "dialectic" brought the principles of
Vico's noble consciousness to sputtering life: and a distant relative
of Frederick Douglass, who saw through the pitfalls of then-nascent
socialism with a depth and acuity that has rarely been equaled. Fine
figures all, and thorough, too: but one needs to "read" the text of
one's life more carefully than promotional billboards to know what is
and is not worth knowing about such a "legacy".
I was unhappy to "learn" this, for any of this items might not be the
case and anyhow it is certainly not one's relatives who want you to
realize "The Truth": it didna work, of course, and why repeat the past
to someone else's specifications? You just know what "those
people" (your ancestors) were already, in the language that you alone
speak and the various 'shifting sands" of your life: people who appear
and disappear, arch comments, "unbelievable" talents you somehow
acquire at some point, and something like a life worth living in
accordance with what you *already were*.
Jeff Rubard
> Recently, it came to me that I, the JeffreyRubardof "21st-century
> socialism", was related to three famous philosophers: a lineal
> descendent of Maimonides, he of mean joke about Semitic languages: a
> close relative of Hegel, whose "dialectic" brought the principles of
> Vico's noble consciousness to sputtering life: and a distant relative
> socialism with a depth and acuity that has rarely been equaled. Fine
> figures all, and thorough, too: but one needs to "read" the text of
> one's life more carefully than promotional billboards to know what is
> and is not worth knowing about such a "legacy".
>
> I was unhappy to "learn" this, for any of this items might not be the
> case and anyhow it is certainly not one's relatives who want you to
> realize "The Truth": it didna work, of course, and why repeat the past
> to someone else's specifications? You just know what "those
> people" (your ancestors) were already, in the language that you alone
> speak and the various 'shifting sands" of your life: people who appear
> and disappear, arch comments, "unbelievable" talents you somehow
> acquire at some point, and something like a life worth living in
> accordance with what you *already were*.
Actually, time to *set the historical record straight*: a *direct*
descendant of Moises Mendelssohn, Rubard was, and his father was a
queer fag who is now dead. Connection between Hegels (?) and Rubards
irrelevant on account of bee-yeu-tee-ful new *translatio* by Terry
Pinkard, and *everybody* likes "duh-glasses", idiot, just not Mr
Douglass's complete rhetorical mastery of the most beautiful phrase of
*American* English.