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 had an argument with both my roommates who said Bush wasn’t a war criminal and that he had the best interest of the country in mind unlike Trump. I found out that one of them thought the Iraq war was a good thing and that we couldn’t let Saddam kill innocent people. I always thought people in my age range realized that Iraq was a shitshow but apparently there are a few who call themself liberal and have the same politics as John Bolton. I even recommended the Blowback podcast to them and they just refused saying that since they’re from Turkey they know more about the region than me.
Do liberals even remember what Bush did? They seem to forget things as time goes on or replace it with some made up memory.
The discourse around Bush is indicative that liberals care more about norms and decorum than actual policy. So what he bombed a country into oblivion, at least he wasn’t an asshole on Twitter.