This is it, People.
It’s finally here. American Authoritarianism with a fully functioning fascist cultural apparatus.
We did it. It took us about 250 years but, we did it.
I’m not sure which was more horrendous and damning, the deployment of troops to LA or the bombing of Iran, but they are of a kind. Orders of a leader who cares nothing for the people of the country and is autocratically creating a government that serves only his whims and power. This is at the cost of democracy and feeds the fire of inhumanity for his myopic, brutal and dangerous followers.
We get to live in real fear all the time now. Not made up or generated internally but actual terror of our government and our fellow Americans.
Sorry, don’t want to be grim but…
The unconstitutional attack of Iran and LA will put in place the machinery to make this a military dictatorship.
I hope all those people that voted for this passively and based in emotions are happy and proud of the America we are becoming, where pain feeds their excitement and corruption and moral bankruptcy become their proud, day-to-day way of moving through the world.
I hope all the ‘anti-woke’ comics are happy about pushing this all through. The big question is when will they shut up about trans people, intellectually challenged people, immigrants, the disabled and minorities. I mean, they won. The policies they were supporting (whether they knew it or not) are happening. All the language and law that protected the vulnerable and marginalized and gave them a leg up have been destroyed. History is being erased and rewritten to support Christian Nationalism. Creativity, tolerance and the path to equality squashed.
I hope it was all worth it so you can say the R-word again. I hope you are proud that all the policies you were championing are happening. I hope you can now stop playing the victim and just enjoy the amazing lack of diversity and diminishment of human rights and collective fear you have supported, because it’s here.
I assume you will just keep at it. It’s one thing to mock the weak and another thing to celebrate their pain and deaths. I assume you have nothing else. Now that what made you has become hack you can just go back to the standard hack model.
On another note, I watched a final cut of the film In Memoriam in which I play the lead. I did good. I’m okay with it. It’s a very emotionally charged movie, very human. I guess many of the projects I’m involved with coming out this year are like that. I think I’m ok with that. The simplicity of human emotions and struggle. Stick may not be art but it might be what we need. I’m not big on talking about ‘storytelling’ but I’m not sure there is another way to get back to what makes us human. The good parts of it, anyway.
I don’t think people sit with each other and just be in the struggle that we all share, in all its nuance and variation.
So, storytelling in the form of film or television or theater that is crafted to explore the struggle in a relatively honest way is necessary now.
Today I talk to Jordan Klepper about the MAGA youth and many other things. On Thursday I talk to comedian Rich Aronovitch about sobriety and the insanity of being who were are. Great talks!
Enjoy!
Boomer, Monkey and LaFonda live!
Love,
Maron
The America We Are Becoming.
