Question

What social themes are addressed in "unanimity has been achieved, not a dot less for its accidentalness"? cite evidence from the text to support your response?

Answer 1

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In the poem "Unanimity Has Been Achieved, Not a Dot Less for Its Accidentalness," Bob Kaufman addresses the theme of social inequality. He discusses the anguish of people who are at the lowest level of society. He suggests privileged people have become deliberately blind, not only to the suffering but also to the very existence of beggars and other poor people:

The greatest men have gone unknown: Buddha was the twenty-

fourth.

A beggar is the body of a God-ness, come to shoot movies with his

eye,

Movies of people who do not beg, ragged, broke eagles, hummed into

the wheels turning, some in, others out, rarely ever in or out, or

vice versa, half open.

He suggests the root of all social ills is the disconnectedness and artificiality of modern society. When people are alienated, they become apathetic and lose the ability to interact with others in a healthy way.

A string begins where a man ends a string, a man begins where a

string ends. A man bereft of a string falls all walls, becomes a

screamed baby, raved.

Kaufman also suggests that government agencies, such as hospitals and healthcare providers, have failed the poor because they treat them not as people but as "destroyed love machines" or experiments. He says mental healthcare providers have failed the mentally ill by treating them as if they’re the problem, instead of viewing their issues with compassion.

I am kneaded by a million black fingers & nothing about me

improves.

Gothic brain surgeons, weeping over the remains of destroyed love

machines.

Diggers, corkscrewing cleanly in, exhilerausted, into the mind mine,

impaled on edgeless shafts of subtle reminiscence, green-

walking across the belts and ties.

Slanted dark-walked time, wet with ages of dryness,

Raga of insignificance & blessed hopelessness.

Raga of sadness, of madness, of green screamed dreams, mile-deep

eyes.

Kaufman uses his poem to highlight how social constructs maintained by those in power (government agencies and the wealthy) contribute to and sustain the inequality in modern society.

Answer 2

"Unanimity Has Been Achieved, Not a Dot Less for Its Accidentalness," is a poem by Bob Kaufman. It discusses social inequality from the perspective of people who are at the lowest level of society. He suggests people started not to care about poor and needy.
The author suggests that the source of all social problems lies on the detachment and artificiality of modern society. People are not able to interact with each other when they are isolated.
By his poem, Kaufman shows that people in power use social construct to feed the inequality in modern society.