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.
Copying and pasting my own post from 2 months ago because it's relevant
My mind keeps thinking back to a brief exchange I had with my mother about a year ago. It was sometime in the late fall/early winter of 2020 and my mom was watching some local news channel that was showing a segment on the state of pre trial detention in the U.S., and my mom turned to me and said something along the lines of “That’s terrible! Did you know that some people are spending over a year in jails just waiting for their trial?”
(I don’t remember the exact words said in this exchange but I remember the jist of it)
“Mom, you know I spent the entire summer yelling at cops. What makes you think that I didn’t know about the terrible things they do?”
“Well, this doesn’t have to do with cops because this is just the justice system not taking care of these people’s cases fast enough”
Now normally I try and educate my mother about the bullshit in the world but that answer was so blatantly intentionally ignorant that I was just fucking speechless. It took me a couple seconds of complete bewilderment before I could ask the very, very obvious follow up question of “WHO DO YOU THINK PUTS PEOPLE IN JAIL???”
At that point my mom just threw up her hands and just gave up. I’m pretty sure she even realized that what she said was completely absurd. But I keep going back to this exchange in my head because it’s such an eye opening view into the liberal mind
It just fucking baffles me how many mental hurdles liberals jump through to justify the cruelty of their ideology