Source: CAW Journal
A kind of absurdist fatalism has taken over discussion of “the current moment”. In the last 22 months of genocide and reenergized fascism, the simple question “how are you?” has gone from almost dreadfully inappropriate, to a bit of a comic punchline in and of itself, back again to a basic question, with the simple caveat that after answering you make a shrugging gesture or apologetic sigh or say “you know, despite the horrors”.
But in this creeping normalization of the increasingly unacceptable, a question that we often see on social media is: “why are things like this?” Why do things only get worse? Does it really have to be this way?
This question is meant to express frustration with and rejection of this world, but the question itself is actually a propaganda victory for the fascist movement, which wants to appear as though it stands outside of history, emerging as naturally and inevitably as a sunrise.
