No Hablen Mal De Ella
Tropitango
3:31what happens if we forgive the wrong people? The thing about being arts minded in Washington DC is you quickly learn that the artists are actually politicians, and the politicians are all performance artists On January 6th I went to the Washington Zoo while the animals stormed the capitol That's a lie I didn't go to the zoo it was covid the zoo was closed it was winter, DC was cold that day I watched and smoked and paced my space like an animal That day I watched the lie become it's own malignant mass of crass anger and fat A lie became an animal In DC naturally an order of the jungle an ecosystem of hybrid species a prevailing environment of dangerously warming democracy In the capitol, the artist learns of the pardon Presidents pardon turkeys near Thanksgiving tax cheats in December presidents get impeached, resign, then get pardoned by each other The politics of the pardon the stratagems behind official forgiveness no emotion just business just transgression no consequence We, the people, take offense, don't we, to a pardon that isn't earned? without remorse, we weigh the integrity of the trespasser's capacity to repent against the trespasser's initial intent You sorry. You sorry?... or you sorry you got caught? The politics of forgiveness the banality of the state procuring emotionless absolution going through the quotidian motions of serving class and race The politics of forgiveness the banality of the state procuring emotionless absolution going through the quotidian motions of serving class and race Here's some unforgiving shit: Worker bees don't serve the queen They serve the HIVE and if the queen isn't actually serving the workers a few of them surround the queen buzz so furiously around her they produce enough heat that the queen is burned alive Overlay the politics of the hive on top of a media conglomerate's amplification of the Big Lie the fomentation of a near fatal national grift Folks, ALL the news is a little fixed everybody on tv lies a little but how do we democratically forgive this? out of what royal jelly do we mold a moral center that sustains inalienable rights through this? Forgiveness has its politics what's frustrating is the banality of the state the flippant amnesia procuring an absolution bereft of an apology bereft of fucks as to the impact on democracy politically who discerns who we forgive? and what if we forgive the wrong people? How do we navigate our troubled unforgiving spirits? is forgiveness, a human right?... How do we navigate our troubled unforgiving spirits? is forgiveness, a human right?... How do we navigate our troubled unforgiving spirits? is forgiveness, a human right?...