Current Events & Our Collective Response to Violence

I am reeling, from all these Luigi videos. The way the media machine is working around him is a lesson in ‘cutting your nose off to spite your face’. It does go without saying that the large media companies are very out of touch with many people in the nation feel, and that can probably be said for almost any country. But watching the United Statesman media try to continuously frame the Luigi situation as something that should really be something that we as the people, condemn, proves the point that many of *us* are trying to say. And there’s a clip that I saw last night from a Spanish politician in which she more or less says that violence begets violence; The United Statesman privatized health care system is violent. A part of the working class consciousness is about ‘how do I care for my family?’ And so the media is trying to appeal to us through ol’ dudes’ family’s pain, but it won’t work. 

Our families have been suffering for too long. With the staggering statistics on Black women and birth rates, with Trans health care tossed out the window, over turning Roe vs Wade, the media is at war with itself; you are violent to us and to our families, we can no longer extend hopes and prayers. The society has been molded for us to completely move through individualism as a cultural marker of sorts, and now there’s this need to get us to reverse this, because of the fear. He is getting slammed with terrorism because class consciousness has been woken up- and alll those that we see clearly, who are proudly expressing themselves and connection to other MAGA people during Jan 6, are not. 

This to me is nothing short of a cinematic experience in real time. Anything can be an album cover meme (posted below) is really the image that sent a small shock in my system. I am trying to absorb all of this with some kind of - not nativity- but something that keeps the eyes open and fresh for something not experienced before. 

I am getting a kick out of watching people wonder about the United Statesman decency in times such as these. However, as an elder Millenial, I have become completely and totally desensitized to violence, and furthermore, the veneer of suburbia and its church going no bible reading ‘good ol american’ life is not something that is worth protecting. The more the government and the media try to spin this, the worse it goes for them. I have been let down before, but between the reaction to the actions, the flops by the media, the politicians and officials that are in charge of the various apparatus‘ and how close it really does feel to class consciousness awakening…something interesting may happen. And there are so many points to be made about how race and mental health play into our reading of this situation, too. Lastly, there's the wave of supposed censorship happening on social media of people who talk about this event. Corporate Internet speak is a living language folks, it's no longer just passive aggressive white girl if you want to speak LinkedIn corporate email. There’s more to this media representation of Luigi to discuss and unpack as everything moves forward, but this image of his perk walk whilst we have a new Superman movie coming out, reminding us of Zach Synder’s famous image of the Illegal Alien Superman in cuffs - and the nerd in me knowing the original intention behind Superman (IYKYK)—You ain’t getting me away from feeling fascination instead of contempt.