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Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter.

9/30/2018

 
We live our entire lives in the punchline of a joke --
one we hear only faintly, from the opposite end of the room,
uttered in tenor and baritone and bass and sometimes even alto barbershop quartets,
accompanied by hand gestures creative and lewd,
and when we scream from inside the joke because we at least want to hear it,
(although it would sound the way your own chewing sounds inside your head)
well then we must be
hysterical
bossy
hysterical
imaginary
hysterical
and certainly on the rag.

The double standard

5/6/2018

 
If you have ever driven a car*
(Henry Ford was a breathtaking anti-semite. He personally funded the translation and distribution of the defamatory Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- which proliferated the myth of an international Jewish conspiracy -- ​in the United States.)

If you have ever made a phone call*
(Alexander Graham Bell was a eugenicist who advocated for laws to restrict immigration by certain ethnicities to the US, and who actively discouraged the use of sign language among the American Deaf community.)

If you use electricity*
(Thomas Edison electrocuted animals to demonstrate the dangerous power of his rival's alternating currents.)

*then you have already mastered the simple practice of benefiting from the work of terrible men without condoning their terrible actions. It is possible to hold that a creation is good and the creator is partly or entirely bad at the same time. These concepts do not contradict one another.
So why
do we denounce
the art of artists
who do bad things?

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