Ambiguity
Ambiguity—others might call it diversity—is being gradually suppressed. Civilization is changing. In capitalist societies, in a life system where science, high technology and administration shape people’s lives, there is no place for ambiguity.
Goenawan Mohamad
October 11, 2021
THE world is full of ambiguity, even though the Taliban and the Pentagon do not want to know this. The world always has two sides at once which do not necessarily negate each other. History proves that life holds that richness—richness that brings its particular confusion.
Back in 1976, the German punk singer Nina Hagen, with her kohl-rimmed eyes and flamboyant hair, sang this song:
Ich glotz' von Ost nach West, 2, 5, 4
Ich kann mich
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