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.
At a Blm protest by the side of the road. A car pulled up and tossed a wad of racist pamphlets and sticker at us. White lady picked them up and exclaimed ‘im taking these to the police!’ Smdh.
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.
Back when I was a Bernie lib I ran for political office and had to knock on doors to ask for signatures and $5 checks (for clean elections funding). Most people I spoke with were friendly and supportive. One dude though told me that he supported ideas, not people, so he couldn’t support me at all. That was about five years ago and I still think about it. The dude is also like a film studies professor at a tiny liberal arts college.
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.”
