A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience - Catalog - Page 34
ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS
Eli Sudbrack
Unity. That is basically what I want for America and the whole
instincts. F* that. We’ve come a looong way from that. We are
world. Something that somehow for some reason at some point
just got way off track and seems rather impossible nowadays.
We are living in extremely polarized societies. Where did it go
wrong? Where did WE go wrong?
much more hive-like than we like to admit, with other humans,
with other living beings, with Earth. If we don’t work together,
we are doomed.
In fact WE have always been wrong. In reality this unity never
happened and people didn’t (or worse: don’t) really want it.
Racism, segregation, discrimination, homophobia, transphobia,
xenophobia, misogyny, intolerance, hate hate hate, bullying,
inequality, poverty, pollution, overpopulation, overconsumption,
torture, wars wars wars, oppression, lack of universal health,
lack of education, corruption, violence, police brutality, lies lies
lies, abuse, destruction, bombs bombs bombs, famine, rape,
dictatorship, censorship, killing killing killing, fake news.
Relentless destruction of the environment, biomes, and
biodiversity being decimated all over the world. Capitalist
economies based on colonialist structures and continuous
exploitation of the land and people. A justice system that only
works for some and it’s clearly biased. We’ve never been WE.
Our society created a system where unity is impossible.
Governments do not represent us, representatives do not
defend our interests. Politicians remain in power because we
are divided. Their pockets always talk bigger than our dreams.
Politicians never have been and never will be real people and
will never really fight for our dreams. Politicians are puppets,
politicians are clowns.
This reality is so painful. How blind are we? How come we see
other people’s pain and struggle and can’t empathize with
them? How come we can’t see that we need to nurture our
environment to guarantee our future instead of relentlessly
exhausting our natural resources? How come we don’t realize
that we need to foster the best in ourselves and in the ones
around us so we rise together and live peacefully? How human
are we? Maybe “being human” is not such a positive aspect as
we usually think.
Division is our motto. “Different” is menacing. We can’t really
see the other as equal. We always blame this on our animal
Eli Sudbrack of assume vivid astro focus, 2009
34
