Internalized Fascism

Internalized Fascism

Seriously.

If you want to know the shape of the fascist cage that media has constructed inside our minds, our parents' minds, and our grandparents' minds over the years?

Read that awful "Screenwriter's Guide for Americans" slop that Ayn Rand wrote.

And then, if you're a creator?

Go forth, and do your damnedest to make works that depict and stand for the OPPOSITE.

Reminder:

• They first targets of the Nazis were the Communists and Trade-Unionists.

• The books the Nazis burned were books about communism, and about the scientific, concrete evidence validating the existence and experiences of Queer and Trans people.

• The Communists beat the Nazis in the end.

It's really wild to me that, when I point to our economic system and hierarchies and condemn the damage that they've done to me and to my life, there are people who would scoff and say, "Yeah well, it COULD have been so much worse though! You got off easy, considering!"

Is that…supposed to make it better? Should I really be grateful for that?

DOESN'T THAT MAKE IT WORSE??

Look, if I'm on a train, and there's a horrific crash, and I stumble out of the train car bloodied and "only" missing an arm and one foot…should I go up to the conductor and shake his hand and thank him for a job well done?

Am I not IGNORING the literal bloodbath -- the piles of human bodies and lives still unmoving on the train cars that I left behind?

The mangled pieces of my friends and family, their cries and frustrations and struggles -- hell, the bodies of STRANGERS, who are human beings just like me -- suffering and crying in needless pain…

And I'm supposed to smile about that, because my pain was and is lesser than theirs??

I don't understand the kind of ghoul you want me to be.

No, it is NOT a good system, just because others got hurt worse than me.

The fact that others get hurt worse than me, and are struggling more than me, is an INDICTMENT of immense proportions. Not a redemption of the systems causing it.

🤷🏾‍♀️ Sometimes I can't decide whether a motherfucker's problem is their projecting their vile, inhumane attitudes on everyone else, or, their having a distressingly low level of reading comprehension -- or both...

But then I remember that that's not what I'm here to bother about, and just block, and move on 😂

The owning class ultimately want there to be not ONE inch of earth that is not monetized, paved over, or existing in their personal gardens.

Meanwhile, people have to shift around like a card game, chasing employment and affordable housing: never getting to know and to work with and to be nurtured by the lands in which they live.

We are Earth's children.

The theft of humanity's connection to her is just one more insult that comes part and parcel with the deep injuries of capitalism.

Internalized Fascism

Seriously.

If you want to know the shape of the fascist cage that media has constructed inside our minds, our parents' minds, and our grandparents' minds over the years?

Read that awful "Screenwriter's Guide for Americans" slop that Ayn Rand wrote.

And then, if you're a creator?

Go forth, and do your damnedest to make works that depict and stand for the OPPOSITE.