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Motivation Monday XII

karololesiak February 20, 2012 Uncategorized 19 Views

photo “09/11/11 at memorial” by:  Karol Olesiak

On this President’s Day, we can say with some certainty what we should be commemorating is future lack of dependence of representative leadership. It is a strange idea to have a holiday monumentalizing the future, but it might be necessary as the present seems more and more obsolete. Perhaps, one day a maximized citizenship will eclipse concepts of hierarchy. Our Motivation Monday comes to us from Michael Hardt’s contribution to the movie Examined Life. He is amongst the leading American Theorists  and his essay deals with the philosophy of revolution. Mr. Hardt’s book Empire is a said to be “the communist manifesto” of the 21st century.  The overwhelming thematic content addresses the fallacies of revolution and what that concept means to those looking forward.

About karololesiak

Karol Olesiak is a poet, writer, and activist. He is a graduate of Eugene Lang Liberal Arts College at The New School and an MFA from The University of San Francisco. As a Navy sailor, he commissioned the USS Ronald Reagan, navigated the straits of Magellan, and served in the Persian Gulf. In 2011 Karol headlined The Bowery Poetry Club in New York. That same year he became a staunch supporter of The Occupy Wall Street Movement and became entrenched in the Occupy network of affinity groups. Karol was one of the founders of www.soldiersforthecause.org. He became an antiwar activist in 2010 and has written many political essays. He has been translated into Spanish. Karol's poetry has been incorporated into cinematography and sound art.

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