Cultural Studies

And so we're told this is the golden age And gold is the reason for the wars we wage Though I want to be with you, be with you night and day Nothing changes on New Year's Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdLuk2Agamk

I wrote this after I could no longer watch the returns of Election Night, so it's a bit of a panicking paroxysm, but given the state of affairs, I think I'm allowed it. Two nights ago, I started a post about the fact that with a Trump victory, the United States would be entering a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Mg6Gfh9Co

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_Gg1xAHE4 It is fifteen years and it feels like this morning. Our national holiday of remembrance of shock and horror and helplessness. We continue to create monuments for the dead and for ourselves. We keep asking God and about God, but we understand there are no answers, because we keep creating objects. We keep creating

Listen to the dead. Violence, real, physical violence, is often the the first eruption when relational communication tangibly breaks down. Violence, gun violence, is the deafening, lethal megaphone that strikes fear and sorrow in our hearts. Violence is the material manifestation of the brutality of the heart and mind and soul and spirit. Institutional violence against