So, I made the mistake of picking a performing arts degree, so I spend most of my days pondering how pointless of a degree it is. I did manage to pick a module about performance protest, and while some of it gets a bit bullshitty, there’s been other parts like looking at native American performance/protest at the Dakota pipeline and stuff, which have been interesting and useful.
Yesterday there was some group work. It was a bit of a brainstorming exercise but as a group we settled on the idea of spamming the illegal immigrant report line/letterbox with shit so that new reports wont go through. Ok, it’s nothing amazing, but it served the purpose of the exercise we were given.
Then this girl speaks up. Previously her contribution to class has been telling everyone about how she culturally enriched herself by going on holiday in places where poor people exist.
On our idea, she says that it might be illegal to do, so we should create a fake website and have people fill that in as a symbolic message.
A FAKE WEBSITE FILLED IN AS A SYMBOLIC MESSAGE
At that moment I realised why the arts seem so useless at changing things. It’s jam packed with trust fund kiddies.
that is complete insanity. what could possibly drive someone to have that thought at my young age? To remove all potency from the tiniest little act. Seriously ghoulish.
There’s a good movie called “Soul on a String”. It’s a Chinese film set in Tibet, with a mostly Tibetan cast and based on a book by a half Han half Tibetan author. Me and my sister saw it at a film festival together. Like a year later she went on a rant about how China “wiped out all the Tibetan and suppressed their culture”. And I was like “uh, we saw a Chinese movie set in Tibet like a year ago”. She said they must have censored it in China, but like no, they didn’t it was released there. I literally pulled this info up on my phone. She just rolled her eyes and went “okay commie”.
I’m genuinely convinced once someone is that lib brained they’re a fucking lost cause, gonna feel real bad when I gotta gulag my own sister.
when these little stupid notions pile up its easy to write them off as a fucking moron, but at the end of the day all it reveals is that they have no idea what they are talking about. i hate that we have to learn a new way to talk to people with these prepackaged beliefs because even the rare attempt to remove the veil seems to them as if all we want to do is make them feel wrong and/or stupid. like, you are, but it’s your fault you feel that way and there’s nothing i can do about it. fuck.
