Disco Genocide 2024. Acrylic on paper, 12 x 16"
Good morning,
You’re free to hide but not free to be, when the power of being calls you to express dissatisfaction with 2000 lb bombs exploding limbs and eyeballs here and there.
Much lip service is paid to the idea of the “home of the free and the brave”, though we know it’s not true. Unless we pretend really hard to be aloof of the boot on our necks. The 1st Amendment exists like the Fairy of the Forest—for Jane to worship sweetly in her off-the-grid dot com fantasy. And Dick to praise when his Glock® arrives in the mail, overnight. The couple loads and locks the pick up truck with a cord of dried Walmart® turds to keep them warm and cozy by the turd fire all winter long.
We are free to take fakely and hide with stuff, but never free to be.
The historian Howard Zinn once suggested we test the strength of the 1st Amendment by standing on the street corner of any U.S. village, town, or city handing out copies of The Communist Manifesto. Wait and see what happens. He wrote this back in the 80’s when Americans were terrified of a Karl Marx “communism” that had never existed in the universe until Dick and Jane were told over and over and over again to think that it did.
Today, as witnessed on college campuses across the U.S., anyone can get arrested just by saying “river” and “sea” together in the same sentence. No printing press necessary. Only need a mouth and some sounds that raccoons and fish don’t understand.
There is no real 1st Amendment, which means Dick that your 2nd Amendment is also dumb words. No, you say? It’s the 2nd Amendment that protects the other platitudes in the Bill of Rights? Oh I don’t agree. Still, you should test the theory, an carry your brace of pistols to the local “Israel is Death” protest. Now see how well your 2nd Amendment protects the first one. Oop! Watch out! Snipers on the roof, ready to waste you and all the kids for the citizens of arbitrary Hell-state Israel.
Best to just lay low and stock up on Walmart® turds like all fearful Americans do when the going gets tough. Pretend you’re free in the woods. You and Jane can dream revolution, order grains online, and bake herb cakes by the stink fire.
I repeat a pattern each time I see the brown children hitting the Lockheed-Martin industrial fan. I groove to my disco tunes in the open air and dream I have hair and liberty.
I think guns as protection from state power can only be posturing as long as one cannot openly organize with others. The 1st amendment needs to be exercised freely before a 2nd amendment can back it up. Otherwise it’s just dissociated people in the woods planning their demise in fear and trembling. And college kids exercising the lies they’ve been told by the powers that be.
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