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.
I once had an art teacher, in college, go on a bit of a tirade about how she doesn't understand why we do drug trials and/or testing on animals when we could just do it on prisoners instead. Had to walk out of the classroom for a bit and really do some evaluation on the human species...and I was still a sucdem at that point even.
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The same people who whinge and cry about Salinist gulags wish our prisons were as brutal as they imagine the gulags to have been.
No, see, you fool, if America mass-incarcerates people, it's good, because we're the good country, and it makes the GDP go up. Gulags were evil because they weren't profitable.
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