This is not to advocate for apathy. It is to listen for a rhythm beneath action. A dissonant breath that says: slow down. Undo the rush. Question the prescription. Let the ache linger. Let the ambiguity speak. Let the silence hum its impossible tunes."
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https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/post/how-to-be-available-now-sidenotes-from-the-para-pragmatic
As fires of urgency hiss across the globe, an exhausted moral machine, masquerading behind the ruins, may whisper a beguiling note: "just do something." Bayo Akomolafe writes from the side, in the cracks of the awkward, suggesting that the right thing to do in response to Gaza, to climate issues, to suffering, may not be how we are being asked to be available. He advances his thesis of para-pragmatism.
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This is not a denouncement of action. It is not an apology for complacency.
What if the rush to act, the quickness to do, is not the antidote to despair but its symptom? What if the insistence on clarity is a refusal to sit with the ache, to stay with the trouble, to let the ambiguity speak?
Oliver Knabe