Tragedy strangles a great deal of art in the crib and the rest it makes about itself, like a whirlpool sucking everything into itself
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Have you heard the quote that survival is paradoxical because it's at once terrifying and boring? How repetitive and grueling it is?
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The art that comes out of crisis is like that. Again and again everyone reacting to the same. Damn. Thing.
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A black hole, this blank and empty void that drags every better and brighter into orbit around it
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Donald Trump is boring. He's stupid. He's as predictable as water flowing downhill and we have to spend our lives paying attention to him
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And that's what he wanted, his whole class of rich smug white assholes feeling left behind and screaming "YOU CAN'T IGNORE ME"
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I'm just so pissed at everyone, whatever side they're on, trying to extract silver linings from this garbage
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The one political quote I've taken most to heart in life is Keynes' "In the long run we're all dead"
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You've got some grand plan for how this will lead to revolution in a generation, maybe two or three, to hell w those who die along the way
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EVERYONE who has some take about how things have to get worse before they get better can go to hell, left, right or whatever
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Left accelerationism, right austerity worshippers, anyone who gets hard over how smart and brave they are to advocate misery in the present
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Eight years is too long, four years is too long, a year, a month, a day, an hour is too long
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Thank you
@arthur_affect I'm 58, my man is 65. There's no fight left for us. We've been fighting our whole lives.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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