PREAMBLE AS A PETIT-BOURGEOIS MONOLOGUE
The Preamble phenomenon can be seen as involving
an attempt to define the Way(s) of First Peoples in terms
which reproduce the Western world, to recruit First Peoples
into an ideology which is not only not theirs but which allows
not space for the core values of their Way(s).
This stands out like the proverbial dogs testicles in light of the
Democrats wanting to insert the the word 'ownership' into the
clause relating to First Peoples and thus substituting the Democrat
world view and voice for that of the people who, otherwise, would
have a voice of their own as cultural partners.
Of course, the others in the Anglo political elite do not want
to go that "far" - i.e. of bestowing the core of Western
private property mythology upon First Peoples, but for
the wrong reasons - it might cost something!
Who amongst them is taking a position which insists that a
properly resourced consultation process be established with
First Peoples to find out what they wish to say, if anything?
And of course, since so many participating in the debate
have already been recruited into the 'bourgeois' definition of
reality - have undergone the transformations of soul which
taking out a mortgage necessitates - then the absence of the
voice of First Peoples is invisible and of no account.
FROM "LANGUAGE AND MATERIALISM" by
Rosalind Coward and John Ellis
"As the contradictions between bourgeois and proletarian
classes developed, a large middle group emerged, the
petit-bourgeoisie. They do not live in the material reality
of the bourgeoisie (who own the means of production) but
they live bourgeoisie ideological reality as the natural,
unacknowledged limits of their universe. As Barthes analyses
it:
"...the bourgeois ceaselessly absorbs into its ideology a
whole humanity which has none of its fundamental status,
and can only live it in their imagination, that is, through
a fixation and impoverishment of consciousness. By spreading
its representations across the whole catalogue of
petit-bourgeois images, the middle class sanctions the
illusory lack of differentiation between social classes
(Mythologies p 140) [end of Barthes quote]
The petit-bourgeoisie is 'recruited' to bourgeois reality
which appears under such forms as Nation ('national
interest') ... Myth makes the world immediately self-evident,
without contradictions. Bourgeois ideas become the eternal
essences of things, they impregnate everyday reality through
the mechanism of myth"
If we must have myths, which it appears we must, how about
having myths by which we can all live full lives?
Bruce
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