LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Now in part Mr. Cummings teaches a doctrine which is very ably
condensed (dichten, condensare; to write poetry is to CONDENSE), Mr.
Cummings teaches a truth which a contemporary German author has
stated quite clearly, as follows:
What we are used to call public opinion is based only in very small part
on per sonal experience or indeed on the experience of particular persons
or indeed on the knowledge of individual voters, but for the most part on
a collective representation (collective picture) which brings about in a
strangely obstinate and insistent way a so called process of clarification
of the problems.
Now the USE of a great writer to his RACE is due precisely to his
having PERSONAL direct perception, and puttin’ in down on paper.
Don’t matter what he thinks [he] is doin’, his USE to race or nation
consists in seeing the OBJECT and writin’ down what he sees, and not
falsifying his record.
Mebbe by an’ by afterwards that word photo, that diagram, that TRUE
diagram can serve to enlighten his people. Don’t forget they are HIS
people as they will never be the people of any member of Congress.
And Mr. Cummings went, unbelievably, he might now say, went down
into hell, alias Soviet Russia. And you are now allied to Soviet Russia.
A thing estlin cummings certainly never thought of when he was writin’
his ami or eimi which, as byproduct, the American people, you American
folks MIGHT now use for your OWN gettin’ enlightened. I’m tellin’
you. Apart from the joy of readin’ a great American book, IF you read it
slowly, it might be of practical use.
I once had a kike friend who had a theory about poetry, namely, that no
one ever read ALL the words on a page. It didn’t, that theory didn’t lead
him to making his poetry quite satisfactory, but as theory it may also
serve to enlighten you.