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Sermon On The
Flats: The Egalitarian Alternative To Fortune Worship
I’m a substitute teacher in a large American city,
mostly at inner-city schools. Probably because the students are all about the
same age and, except for the few who work minimum wage jobs, are equally without
income, occasionally (and cautiously for fear the school authorities will
suspect my subversion) I’m able to imagine a classless, egalitarian community
with sufficient vividness to convince myself as well as my students that what I
have merely imagined has actually come to pass, namely, that the students seated
before me and I have somehow dissolved the world of rank and social status that
hamstrings our attempts to deal fairly with each other and, along with everyone
else, cooperatively own the global enterprise called life on earth. For several
minutes the class and I exist in a state of trance. I present my case so simply
and eloquently to them that I cannot believe it is I who speaks. And they on
their part listen and respond so generously and articulately that they cannot
believe it is they who attend. And although our camaraderie is transient and
unconsecrated no one leaves the room without feeling that for a few moments we
attained a high spiritual state.
That I can invoke a few moments of classless society by
merely imagining it gives me a glimmer of hope that the various social,
political and economic institutions all of us create in order to tolerate living
together are shaped by different spiritual ultimatums we deliver to ourselves
from which we imagine there is no appeal. That means to me that however massive
its public edifices; however myriad the megatons of brick and marble, granite
and concrete that reify the political state and make it a colossus, the entire
conglomeration floats precariously inside a bubble of faith such that should the
bubble burst, the state turns to rubble. Sermon On The Flats is my attempt to prick that bubble.
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