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.
My mom expressed absolute outrage at the fact that there are homeless people on the streets when we have so many empty houses, and then the exact same level of outrage about the estate tax existing.
From an older post:
“January 6th is the most important thing right now because it could be the end of democracy.”
“There’s too many natural disasters in Haiti, they should take all the people away and make it a nature preserve.”
“You don’t like Joe Biden? So you must like Trump then!”
“Draft dodgers are the reason my relative died in Vietnam.”
Once walked in on my brother explaining to a friend that mass shootings are false flags in a scheme to… cheapen the symbolic value of flying flags at half mast. I’m not a confrontational person so I just noped out of there.
Local media works overtime to humanize individual police officers. Welcoming new deputies into the force, doing stories on a cop’s sick kid, a sheriff playing basketball with poor teenagers and taking them Christmas shopping, etc. Whenever there’s a death of an officer, it becomes a tragedy, a horribly sad event for the entire community.
They should be seen as an occupying force, a tool of the state to defend private property and bleed money from the people they oppress. But to speak like that paints you as a monster, and people clutch their pearls at someone speaking out against the police. “Not all of them are bad! They have families too!” Yeah, they’re all working for a corrupt, violent institution, and idgaf about their families or who they are as a person. They’re not our friends and they aren’t on our side.
