27 March

We’re a culture where history is something that lasts about 10 minutes. And therefore we don’t see this sort of thing for what it actually is. Cultures that were founded by revolutions, endlessly reproducing that ‘rising up’ of ‘the people’. Revolutions only destroy, they don’t build. And ‘the people’ doesn’t exist. It’s a revolutionary fiction. One of the things revolutions destroy is the memory of any other way to go about things.