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The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized, Part 2 (Interview w/ Báyò Akómoláfé)

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The Importance of Owning Emotion as Property and Identity

The feeling that I've just experienced is not mine, it's the webs, if you will. Maybe what we rudely call depression is a seed dropping to the earth and experiencing this convolution. But even though tradition after tradition after tradition directly says that we don't own our emotions, the psychologization of discourse has emotion owned as property and identity. How does it feel to feel into emotion as geographical, as weather, as vagabond spirits seeking compatible harmonic receptor sites? It feels like fully realized beings, as passing gods.

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