The way media talks about racism is largely ineffective. I understand why it is so, and I am a little angry about it. Cheesy slogans get clicks a lot faster than deep, honest analysis. It’s about money and vanity, and ironically, we no longer need an evil hand to orchestrate it, people do it all on their own. Because, internet. Because, stupid.
No system in the world can solve the problems of the heart. Dysfunctions in society are born in the heart. Systems always follow the heart.
Existentially, it matters very little what kind of ‘ism’ you attach to the world you create. What matters is whether it started with something like selling your mother’s kidney.
The 21st century America is a very strange place. Beautiful, bountiful, but strange. It tells me, “I want your music in my catalogue as long as you agree that it’s not special, and I want your booty in my catalogue as if it’s not special, either”. It wants me to line up and lick the conveyor. It wants me to play ordinary. It wants me to march with the crowd and participate in the global sexual act that has been stripped of all magic. The underlying emotion is of disrespect.
What do I say? First, I have no words. Then I cry. I don’t like any of it. It’s counter-everything. It defeats my humanity, my dignity, and my sense of self. It’s a man (and woman) eating machine (I stole it from Grace Jones).
In the Russian culture, there is a certain resentment of anybody who sticks out. In the classic American culture, there is a certain resentment of anybody who is relaxed. Twins!
Can we just honestly admit that we don’t know f*ck?
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