“I don’t think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.” — James Hillman
Thank you Phil. Being absurd in the face of absurdity seems the most viable way to confront the bullshit we are living. Yes, I am a Portlander keeping Portland Weird.
American fascism has become a thing, to fill a void of psychic and aesthetic decay true enough. But where did that void come from?
The upper class engineered the void with deliberate economic policy. America financialized and in doing so, shredded the social contract. Both political parties are totally owned by oligarchs, and the people have no voice. The social contract is torn with stagnant wages at the same time productivity and profits soar. The psychic pain and aesthetic ugliness of which you speak is the emotional register of a deep structural theft. This theft created a void which Trump fills, and which the Democrats ignored. Now Trump tries to stay in office, forever as he must. For he dare not let the rule of law return.
Fascism has never been stopped without force. Perhaps the absurd can inspire a proper reaction, but by itself the absurd will not stop fascism. It never has.
Thank you Phil. Being absurd in the face of absurdity seems the most viable way to confront the bullshit we are living. Yes, I am a Portlander keeping Portland Weird.
I agree. Absurd times demand absurdism in the face of the inadvertently absurd.
I really enjoyed this! Thank you for putting into words so much of what we see around us
I DID love "All bow to the bully boy enforcers of The United States Of Middle School" isn't that the truth.
I do love the emergence of the absurd and the growing sense of ridicule growing and the creativity and sense of joy and community growing with it.
Keep up the great work. It is needed now more than ever.
American fascism has become a thing, to fill a void of psychic and aesthetic decay true enough. But where did that void come from?
The upper class engineered the void with deliberate economic policy. America financialized and in doing so, shredded the social contract. Both political parties are totally owned by oligarchs, and the people have no voice. The social contract is torn with stagnant wages at the same time productivity and profits soar. The psychic pain and aesthetic ugliness of which you speak is the emotional register of a deep structural theft. This theft created a void which Trump fills, and which the Democrats ignored. Now Trump tries to stay in office, forever as he must. For he dare not let the rule of law return.
Fascism has never been stopped without force. Perhaps the absurd can inspire a proper reaction, but by itself the absurd will not stop fascism. It never has.