I haven't read Bey, but i've seen the idea before.
Let me use that to illustrate what i perceive as the problem here. Suppose we start a movement to promote the creation of temporary autonomous zones. Suppose the movement becomes so big, despite attempts to suppress it, that it begins to threaten the cultural-reality of "legitimate authority" that allows governments to do what they want with popular support. Eventually the TAZ's become so big that they start to form, over time, ways for people to deal with one another; these become traditions; and eventually, whatever authority structures began to exist within the TAZ's become the authority structure accepted within society at large. YET, they still call the edifice they've constructed a "TAZ" even though it is now nothing of the sort.
This generation's revolution is the next generation's edifice, because the words and concepts and images are co-opted and appropriated by the formers of authority, and it confuses people so that they do not see that their words and images have been stolen and now represent the exact opposite of what they were created to oppose.
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Let me use that to illustrate what i perceive as the problem here. Suppose we start a movement to promote the creation of temporary autonomous zones. Suppose the movement becomes so big, despite attempts to suppress it, that it begins to threaten the cultural-reality of "legitimate authority" that allows governments to do what they want with popular support. Eventually the TAZ's become so big that they start to form, over time, ways for people to deal with one another; these become traditions; and eventually, whatever authority structures began to exist within the TAZ's become the authority structure accepted within society at large. YET, they still call the edifice they've constructed a "TAZ" even though it is now nothing of the sort.
This generation's revolution is the next generation's edifice, because the words and concepts and images are co-opted and appropriated by the formers of authority, and it confuses people so that they do not see that their words and images have been stolen and now represent the exact opposite of what they were created to oppose.