I couldn't disagree with your assertion that if we reached the capacity to overcome these enemies, to round them up, mow them down or set them out to sea, we wouldn't have to.
Unsatisfied, I'd ask, for the trauma-strained lives, for the flashbacks, for these nightmarish daydreams, what, then, of an innate value in sheer revenge?
A hammer in my hand, a prison guard tied up. Fucking ball-peen in my hand. It's mouth has been taped shut. Could you imagine this is far from the worst one? One more inevitable conclusion to every concrete ceiling reached by the stacks of petty, calculated indignities. Never went 30 minutes in their jails without the rape jokes or search threats, or managed supervised release without the same during the piss tests. I still remember Galeano lines that used to feel so important: "They did not succeed in turning us into them."
Still trying to reconcile divergent visions of abolition with incessant revenge fantasies, so spectacularly violent, the creeping feeling that constant failure is the only thing prefigurative, and the implications and contradictions in thinking through what it would mean and take to win.
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