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hythm of our own choosing. Probably we need to think of
revolution in terms of both temporalities: the temporality of
rave-and-rage, performance-and-dance, and the temporality of
patient creation, of gardening-and-weaving. This is not the old
virtue of revolutionary patience, based on the idea that we must
wait until the objective conditions are ripe. This is a different
sort of patience that says 'no waiting, let's get on now with
constructing a different world, but it is not something that can
be created in an explosion of fury, it requires and always will
require a process of patient creation'.
This is a gentler time, a time perhaps not so much of passion
but of love and friendship. It suggests a slower, longer process,
but it is certainly not the time of duration. It is not time which
is separated from our doing or from the social relations we are
creating, but very much an 'our time', a time which we create and
re-create, but which does not separate itself from our creationre-creation.
This too is a 'space-time lived in unitary fashion'
of which Vaneigem speaks. It is perhaps too another face of the
nunc stans, the moment of blending with eternity understood
now not as orgasm but as a lazy moment of enjoyment with
friends, when we sit back and want the day to drift on slowly.
The Zapatista uprising began with the cry of i Ya basta!
(Enough!), but they also have a saying that expresses the second
temporality: 'caminamos, no corremos, porque vamos muy
lejos' (we walk, we do not run, because we are going very far).
This is the time of the Zapatista communities, of the schools,
the clinics, the cooperatives, the Juntas de Buen Gobierno: the
patient construction of another world which is the core of the
Zapatista movement.
This is the time when dignity moves beyond rage, the time of
walking the paths we create by walking.
6. DOING-TIME BREAKS PROGRESS, MEANDERS.
Clock-time, we have seen, is the time of progress, of development
understood in quantitative measurements, in percentage growth
of GDP. Progress is an external force, the need to build highways,
airports, tourist facilities because, if not, we will fall behind.
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