IN SHORT:
UPRIGHT: This is the Beginning. Spontaneous & free spirits. Innocence and Ignorance. Non-linear developments.
REVERSED: Recklessness and erratic behavior. Withholding energy. Attraction to risk.
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IN DEPTH:
The Fool is zero. the Fool belongs with the front, back, everywhere and nowhere. But ultimately, it is the Fool’s Path that the we are being called towards. In this card we see a young anarchist, atop a pole holding adverts, and surveillance cameras. The gloved hands twist the neck of the camera, disabling it with ease, the hoodie hides the face and tactical backpack underneath. This Fool is strong, agile courageous and prepared for direct action. It looks like courage to others, but for the Fool it is just second nature, it’s nothing left to loose, nothing left to gain. However just as they dismantle the surveillance system watching the roving crowds below, the fool’s image is available to be captured many times over by admirers below. The Fool leaps then looks. The Fool is courage. The Fool is an angel of radicalization. The Fool is imbued with the extraordinary power of belief. The Fool leaps off from great heights—because how will you know if you don’t try?
The Fool is the one who is wild enough to believe that we do not have to be passive recipients of unjust history, resistance is possible—and once this belief sets in, a radical journey has begun.
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“ But we can go further. History has a shape , but it is not one that is foretold, still less one forecast by the tools and technologies at hand. Instead, the shape of history, as Marx argued, is rough by the struggles of those who participated in it.”
Gavin Muller. –Breaking Things at Work (The Luddites were Right about Why You Hate Your Job.) . 2021
“There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends.
Some are obsessed by both. Two other positions are possible: only picturing one’s end – our own culture; picturing neither beginning nor end – the coming culture.”
-Jean Baudrillard. Cool Memories. 1990
“There is no aphrodisiac like innocence”
Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990)
“Not only does reality resist those who still criticize it, but it also abandons those who defend it. Maybe it is a way for reality to get its revenge from those who claim to believe in it for the sole purpose of eventually transforming it: sending back its supporters to their own desires.“
Radical Thought (1994)
“For these artists and writers, the beauty of the gesture takes the place of social utility, with which they don’t concern themselves. ”
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