tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33111426077431313642024-03-16T03:09:12.877-04:00WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE?It's in my eyes, and it doesn't look that way to me, In my eyes. - Minor ThreatGEFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01146744056187558931noreply@blogger.comBlogger3842125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3311142607743131364.post-80777108503874672362023-07-28T09:25:00.003-04:002023-07-28T09:45:15.284-04:00My exhibition is up in Paris July 20th-August 6th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='500' height='900' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy7LNMeE1gqbCxrYtXfw85_PPkokR4DnilLTNnV1f28zLVb1oCs-wtJyFo6dfrrG0bTlB4C6nTewkINx6HDwg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
Merci and thank you to all that made the opening night in Paris. A great time and inspiration for all!<br><br>
Show is up until August 6th everyday from 11-7pm. <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/35+Rue+des+Francs+Bourgeois,+75004+Paris,+France/@48.8578074,2.3603996,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x47e66e023755f6b5:0xbab743ecefc25384!8m2!3d48.8578074!4d2.3603996!16s%2Fg%2F11csjjqt1d?hl=en-US&entry=ttu" target="_blank">35 Rue des Francs Bourgeois</a>, Paris France<br><br>
All the difficult to get books, show supporting poster prints and special edition OBEYxBurning Flags tour t-shirts are available. 👊🏽✌🏽<br><br>
#glenEfriedman #skateboarding #punkrock #hardcore #hiphop #goldenage #photography #film #35mm #inspiration #integrity #MYRULES #burningflagstour<br><br>
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Glen E. Friedman appeared on the most popular and world famous, podcast for skateboarders - THE NINE CLUB - some folks thought he schooled the younger squad of later generation skateboarders and their main audience. Animator Rees Geraghty made this inspirational animation accentuating that. WE LOVE IT!GEFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01146744056187558931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3311142607743131364.post-77142581754207882922023-01-27T01:23:00.001-05:002023-01-27T10:38:11.142-05:00JUST A MINOR THREAT the complete Minor Threat photographsof glen E. friedmanComing October 3rd, 2023 - a new book called JUST A MINOR THREAT - The Minor Threat photographs of glen E. friedman - Link to <a href="https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/gef-minorthreat/" target="_blank">pre-order direct here</a>, discounted or signed, your choice.
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This summer I was asked about what book I was thinking of doing next, I told the well respected friend my options, he insisted I only had once choice and that Minor Threat was it! I made some calls to see if this was OK with all the folks involved (band and book publishers), and as they say “The rest is history”... you'll get the full story another time.
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Just know this, I made only around 200 photographs of Minor Threat, less than 6 full rolls of B&W film in total, over a year and a few months, 140 of the images will appear in this book.
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There will be essays from Ian F. Svenonius and Zack de la Rocha about Minor Threat, a short introduction from me, and words from other band members on the shows seen in the book they also played at, Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, Alec MacKaye of the Faith, and Jamie Shanahan of the Mob.
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Honestly the book is looking way better than I even imagined it would. Lots of images you've never seen and all of the classics you have. It’s chaotic and awesome, and different from any of the other books i’ve made, (other than it’s cover trim size which is the same as the Fugazi, Black Flag and Together Forever books - they will all sit on the shelf perfectly side by side)
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We are still early in the process, test proofing some photos for superior print quality, getting ready for the printing press, but the page layouts and design is done! it's going to be incredible.
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#MinorThreat #HarDCore #Punk #IanMacKaye #LylePreslar #BrianBaker #JeffNelson #SteveHansgen #BLACKANDWHITE #Photography #inmyeyes #filler #straightEdge #glenEfriedman #PhotoBook @brianbakers @elvispreslar @dischordrecords @akashicbooks @65mackayver @ian_f_svenonius @jello_biafra_gsm @rageagainstthemachine @jamie_zulu #integrity #inspiration #FuckYouHeroes #MyRules #washington DCGEFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01146744056187558931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3311142607743131364.post-88200695041060414132023-01-26T13:29:00.000-05:002023-01-26T13:29:08.366-05:00Recently found video from the FUCK YOU ALL Exhibition in Washington DC from 2000<iframe title="vimeo-player" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/793075103?h=58ec4b6e70" width="590" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>GEFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01146744056187558931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3311142607743131364.post-21960936069981673402021-12-06T13:23:00.021-05:002021-12-06T14:11:34.581-05:00High Quality Poster Prints Available Now to Support Upcoming Exhibitions.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEMFXUdFeOOyw-Da0J4z7T64ycHDnL2lwvHF6-vt4Gu7EvL7G4pNdmlY73JJIV7nrBR6rZBehHOVHovKcBNV30AwpWLPPLFYkv28o1wf2GzZCKnVmIxIbNk5GbK57SFPkuU61-iHOvkrRLIZ2Z5tNb4k550achbbwg1Dj6GnRmxzoSKdU_Rjqe5zl8EA=s2048" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEMFXUdFeOOyw-Da0J4z7T64ycHDnL2lwvHF6-vt4Gu7EvL7G4pNdmlY73JJIV7nrBR6rZBehHOVHovKcBNV30AwpWLPPLFYkv28o1wf2GzZCKnVmIxIbNk5GbK57SFPkuU61-iHOvkrRLIZ2Z5tNb4k550achbbwg1Dj6GnRmxzoSKdU_Rjqe5zl8EA=s400"/></a></div>
High quality poster prints, will be sold for the first time ever, to help fund exhibitions of my work worldwide. Iconic images of Tony Alva, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, Bones Brigade, Black Flag, and Public Enemy will be included. The sale will directly fund the photography exhibitions in cities around the world. <br><br>
Get posters <a href="www.wax-face.com/glenefriedman" target="_blank">HERE</a>. <b>www.wax-face.com/glenefriedman</b> <br><br>
The limited edition GICLEE prints are printed on exceptional ‘Hahnemuhle FineArt Baryta a-Cellulose Bright White High Gloss archival paper’ 325 gsm (18’’ x 24’’ / A2). Each individual print will be numbered and come with a seal on the back signed. <br><br>
Only 500 copies of each image will be created. <br><br>
Following on from our successful exhibition with ATP in London in 2014 / 2015, we plan to once again join forces for this worldwide project with the same DIY ethic as the MY RULES, Covent Garden full building exhibition. Plans for the exhibition to travel to Barcelona, Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Tokyo, Melbourne, Los Angeles and New York City are already in the works. Crowd sourcing revenue to make these happen via print sales keeps the integrity of the show at a premium. <br><br>
Each supporter who purchases a print will be contacted when the shows are confirmed and invited to choose which city they would like to attend the pre-opening night, showing. I will be attending these special openings and can personalise any prints that anyone has purchased.<br><br>
PHOTOGRAPHS INCLUDED IN THIS SET <br><br>
Tony Alva - 1977 <br>
Bad Brains - 1980 <br>
Beastie Boys - 1991<br>
Bones Brigade -1984 <br>
Black Flag - 1983 <br>
Public Enemy - 1987<br>
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The first exhibitions will take place in Europe in 2022. <br><br>
Prints cost $99 USD, £75 GBP, €85 euros + Shipping.<br><br>
please feel free to share <a href="www.wax-face.com/glenefriedman">www.wax-face.com/glenefriedman</a><br>cut and paste this link to get to the poster sale page.
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GEFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01146744056187558931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3311142607743131364.post-41905938272969996602021-10-26T00:30:00.001-04:002021-10-26T00:30:00.232-04:00RARE MINOR THREAT video from CBGB's 1982 and my photos from the same show!<iframe width="490" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8HfrvUiRhYA" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
All these photos from the same show:
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On Wendnesday the 3rd of November 2021 <a href="https://nitehawkcinema.com/prospectpark/programs/20-years-of-dogtown/" target="_blank">The Nitehawk Cinema in Prospect Park Brooklyn</a>, NY will be screening the original <i><b>DogTown and Z-Boys</b></i> as well as GEF's new short film <i><b>A Look Back: DogTown and Z-Boys</b></i>. This is the only planned big screen showing of the new film in the U.S. after it's premiere in Paris last month, at the <a href="https://pssff.fr/selection-officielle/" target="_blank">Paris Surf and Skateboard Film Fesitval</a>. Come join us for a short Q&A with original Z-Boy <b>Wentzle Ruml IV</b> and <b>Glen E. Friedman</b>. They will also be signing copies of the recently re-published book "<a href="http://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/dogtown/" target="_blank">DogTown - The Legend of the Z-Boys</a>"
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GEFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01146744056187558931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3311142607743131364.post-78226580687262075232021-08-10T01:00:00.001-04:002021-08-10T01:00:00.291-04:00my short film "A Look Back: DogTown & Z-Boys" will be released next month!A date has not been set yet, but it will be forthcoming.
The in person premeire will be held at the opening of the <a href="http://www.pssff.fr" target="_blank">Paris Surf and Skate Film Festival</a> on September 23rd where I will attend.
Here's the teaser:
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Originally aired on January 8, 2021.
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GEFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01146744056187558931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3311142607743131364.post-81542773330367637592020-11-24T02:00:00.001-05:002020-11-24T02:00:06.054-05:00How Many American Idiots Are There? 73 Million.This Wasn’t Just an Election. It was a Census of American Idiots.<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">by </span><a href="https://eand.co/how-many-american-idiots-are-there-73-million-bded995868cf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #04ff00;">umair haque</span></a>
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<div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">This was no ordinary election. By now, you know that. But I mean it in a slightly different way. Not just that </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://eand.co/trump-cant-be-president-so-he-s-burning-down-american-democracy-ea7dbcb32f86?source=your_stories_page-------------------------------------" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">Trump’s <span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">still</span> trying to steal it</span></a><span style="color: #d9ead3; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">, and the GOP’s in cahoots. No, I mean that this election was something like a census of</span><span style="color: #d9ead3; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"> </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj2wf7_1JHtAhVMGVkFHTK4AiIQFjAAegQIBhAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Feand.co%2Fhow-the-american-idiot-made-america-unlivable-7531e917181b&usg=AOvVaw2VJ9ewaCugo9RuKxzHdMNT" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">American Idiots</a><span style="color: #d9ead3; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">.</span></span></div><div><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="2850" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">If you’ve been keeping up with the news, you’ve been hearing stories like this. A nurse talks, </span><span style="color: #04ff00;"><a class="cm kg" href="https://twitter.com/jodidoering/status/1327771329555292162?s=21" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">bewildered, desperate, about people in the Covid ICU</span></a>.</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> Who are gasping for breath. Plenty of whom go on to die. And as they’re oxygenated and ventilated and intubated, in rage, in fury, they lash out…going right on…</span><span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-style: italic;">denying Covid exists</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">.</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ebc4" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;">What the? How do…deny the existence of Covid…while you’re on your possible deathbed…<span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">in the Covid ICU</span>?</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3a8b" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-weight: 700;">And yet you know and I know. This is, unfortunately, tragically, grimly, the phenomenon that I call </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjYwvq73JHtAhXl01kKHdWqCasQFjABegQIAhAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Feand.co%2Fthe-rise-of-the-american-idiot-dd6c85c445ba&usg=AOvVaw3DlDZhTiwkQ4UDwT3du9J0" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">the American Idiot.</span></span></a><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> The entire world knows by now. Sane Americans shake their heads at such people. But the rest of the world is genuinely staggered, jaw-dropped, banging their heads against the table. How do people even end up like this? So amazingly, well, idiotic? Why does America seem to breed this special kind of person, the American Idiot?</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1b07" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">I don’t mean idiot in the way of an insult, by the way.</span> To the Greeks, “idiot” was the ultimate term of scorn. Idiots were the most contemptible people in classical society. Why? The term really means, in the classical context, “people who are consumed only with self-interest.” And to the Greeks, the progenitors of democracy, nobody — nobody was more dangerous than an idiot.</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ed3e" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;">Their reasoning went like this. <span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Should enough of a society be consumed solely with self-interest, a society would soon enough cease to be a democracy. </span>People only concerned with themselves can’t look out for any kind of common wealth or shared interest. They can’t exercise any of the following virtues: courage, compassion, truth, beauty, grace, generosity, kindness, humility, all of which are allocentric, meaning “other-focused,” not egocentric.</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="891b" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">So what will happen to such a society? They reasoned that when a society hit a threshold of idiots, it would soon enough lapse into poverty, and then into tyranny. Idiots </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj2wf7_1JHtAhVMGVkFHTK4AiIQFjAAegQIBhAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Feand.co%2Fhow-the-american-idiot-made-america-unlivable-7531e917181b&usg=AOvVaw2VJ9ewaCugo9RuKxzHdMNT" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">can’t build a society with any kind of public goods</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> </span></a><span style="color: #d9ead3;">— for the Greeks, that meant things like trust and self-governance. Today it means all those plus healthcare and retirement. Because people wouldn’t be able to provide those things for themselves, as a society, they’d soon enough try to exploit each for them. Society would degenerate into a kind of snake eating its own tail — </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwingJ3C1pHtAhVLuVkKHeA5BK8QFjAAegQIBhAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Feand.co%2Fwhy-is-america-the-worlds-most-uniquely-cruel-society-f67afc5c6b9a&usg=AOvVaw2RT7TC3dsuCUtLFfd5j0ox" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3;">each person trying to exploit the next</a><span style="color: #d9ead3;">. Such a society would lapse into cruelty, hostility, anger, stupidity, ignorance, and folly — barbarism.</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8681" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;">And soon enough, a demagogue would come along, who would prey on all those fears — conjuring up imaginary enemies, twisting rage into hatred — and democracy would flash out of existence.</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0599" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">It’s a good theory, when you think about it. </span>What’s remarkable about it is how much more sophisticated and nuanced and intelligent it still is, all these thousands of years later, than what passes for modern economics and political science, which is all too often superficial nonsense. But does the theory hold up?</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d0dd" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">You only have to look at America, the Land of the Idiots. This election does something remarkable — it gives us </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://eand.co/can-71-million-americans-really-be-racist-you-wont-like-the-answer-7a67d0214b59?source=your_stories_page-------------------------------------" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">a comically exact headcount of American Idiots</span></a><span style="color: #d9ead3;">. There are </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/nov/20/us-election-results-2020-joe-biden-defeats-donald-trump-to-win-presidency" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3;">73 million of them</a><span style="color: #d9ead3;">. That’s how many people voted for Trump.</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3811" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;">Am I saying Trump voters are idiots? Of course I am, duh. Again, not as an insult, but as an observation. In the classical sense: people consumed with the narrowest definition of self-interest possible.</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="0498" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Think about the Covidiots for a moment. </span>There they are, in the ICU, gasping for breath…raging at a poor nurse…screaming at her that <span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Covid doesn’t exist</span>. <span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">That’s </span>an idiot. It’s someone whose self-interest is so extreme they can’t even admit the possibility that a lethal pandemic exists, because the whole world centres around them.</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d939" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">There are so, so many </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiHoYWF2ZHtAhUeGVkFHZYQBnYQFjAAegQIBBAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Feand.co%2Fhow-america-became-an-idiocracy-edb1dd69eb00&usg=AOvVaw3ibZGssQOLmn1k1TYrdPh0" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">kinds of American Idiots</span></a><span style="color: #d9ead3;">. The ones who proudly carry guns to…Starbucks…and make their kids do “active shooter drills,” which, for the rest of the world, means that masked armed men burst into schools, pretend to shoot kids and teachers, and they have to pretend to die. The ones who voted against healthcare…again…in the middle of a literal pandemic. The working class heroes who’ve denied themselves retirement for fifty years now…while Wall St laughs. There are the ones who try to pray the gay away and think women should be relegated to child-rearing and domestic chores.</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9ea5" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">There are so, so many kinds of American Idiots that I’ve barely scratched the surface yet. The truth is that the above kind are the relatively </span><span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-style: italic;">benign</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> ones. Then there are the Proud Boys, literal white supremacists…whom the </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://eand.co/are-these-the-last-14-days-of-american-democracy-18b2964f2513?source=your_stories_page-------------------------------------" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">President put on “stand by.”</span></a><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> All those “militia-men,” meaning pudgy dudes with guns playing Rambo. You might think all that’s just a joke, but it’s not — this group is something very much like America’s ISIS. It recently planned to </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjApOyQ2pHtAhVxxFkKHTReCYAQFjABegQIBRAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2020%2F10%2F08%2Fgretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-facebook-groups-militias-fbi%2F&usg=AOvVaw3dlpxRx3342FeQLw824nEg" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3;">kidnap politicians and assassinate them</a><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> on live television. They’re domestic terrorists, every bit as extreme as militant Islamic fundamentalists.</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="dc1c" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #b6d7a8; font-family: arial;"><mark class="qq qr lm" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">What’s remarkable about Trumpism is that it’s the Death Star of the American Idiots</span></mark><mark class="qq qr lm" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer;">. Trumpism unites all the various kinds of American Idiots. In a kind of epic, colossal suicide pact.</mark></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="abb2" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">What are the American Idiots really fighting for — whether they’re religious fanatics, Covidiots, gun nuts, or bigots? </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiVsoWm2pHtAhWk1VkKHcsfARoQFjAAegQIAhAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Feand.co%2Fhow-freedom-became-free-dumb-in-america-baee33dc6476&usg=AOvVaw07CHEjnqm18jVUAbOnoslJ" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">Free-dumb</span></a><span style="color: #d9ead3;">. In the rest of the rich world, freedom now has a modern meaning — it means something like “the set of rights that enable one to enjoy a decent life, from healthcare to retirement to income to childcare to dignity.” But in America, freedom means something so different it’s diametrically opposed: the right to do </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiVsoWm2pHtAhWk1VkKHcsfARoQFjAAegQIAhAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Feand.co%2Fhow-freedom-became-free-dumb-in-america-baee33dc6476&usg=AOvVaw07CHEjnqm18jVUAbOnoslJ" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3;">whatever you damn well please</a><span style="color: #d9ead3;">, no matter how harmful it is to anyone else, yourself, your city, town, country, or your loved ones.</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="3b9b" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-weight: 700;">Free-dumb is individualism gone thermonuclear, taken to its most absurd outer limits.</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> It means that your right to carry a gun to Walmart is more important than kids getting educations. That you can teach your kids whatever kind of nonsense you want, instead of educating them to be proper members of a civilized society. It means that Justice Amy Coney Barrett can </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://eand.co/the-damage-trumps-supreme-court-will-do-to-america-is-incalculable-431b4f11abef?source=your_stories_page-------------------------------------" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">belong to a religious cult with no separation between private and public life </span></a><span style="color: #d9ead3;">— and that’s perfectly OK, nobody should question it. That you can go on “believing” Covid doesn’t exist, while you’re dying of it.</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8777" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Free-dumb, this fanatical ideology of toxic individualism, is what unites the American Idiots.</span> They’re all pursuing some flavour of it. And what Trump did was give all the various kinds of American Idiots the license to be as extreme in their pursuit of free-dumb as they ever wanted, and then some. Don’t want to wear a mask? Great! That’s your choice. Don’t want to believe in science? No problemo! Don’t think minorities are human beings? Excellent! Are women just there to bleach their hair and serve men? Well done!</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="7c70" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-weight: 700;">Trump, being </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjYv93R2pHtAhWCtlkKHSxPBnEQFjABegQIBRAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Feand.co%2Fdonald-trump-american-idiot-1571f3606ea4&usg=AOvVaw15idSkT8b_zBZR2abvTb6B" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">the ultimate American Idiot</span></span></a><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-weight: 700;">, gave every lesser kind of American Idiot a licence to light little fires of idiocy across the land.</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">And now they’re burning out of control. America can’t get a grip on Covid, because the Covidiots keep right on spreading it…since they don’t believe it exists in the first place. Politics is burning down, since the vast majority of Republicans apparently </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj40rvd2pHtAhXExVkKHae1DAcQ0PADegQIBBAH&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-usa-election-poll%2Fhalf-of-republicans-say-biden-won-because-of-a-rigged-election-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN27Y1AJ&usg=AOvVaw2lqdzsMwxaBfGzPpQFtRcn" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3;">believe the election was rigged</a><span style="color: #d9ead3;">. Society can’t make any progress, because the idiots block even the smallest iota of it, crying like big slobbering babies that their free-dumb is under attack. The smallest kind of cultural progress — gay rights, womens’ rights — are at constant risk of reversal, because the idiots can’t abide anyone else being a true equal, since the world has to spin around them, and their ignorance, stupidity, rage, and superstition.</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="41ee" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;">How did all this come to be? Trump printed a licence for every American Idiot to go out and set fire to their own neighborhoods, sure — but why did they think that was a <span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">good </span>thing to do? Because America’s a country so backwards it’s hard to explain just how the American Idiot ends up thinking the bizarre things they do. Certainly, the internet reinforces it. Visit an American bookshop, and most of the best-sellers are fanatical right-wing screeds. And American education is something you can opt out of.</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="464d" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;">So American idiocy is a kind of complex cultural problem right about now. The American Idiot is, we know, </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://eand.co/biden-won-but-has-trump-broken-america-63f5e563fba7?source=your_stories_page-------------------------------------" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">three things</span></a><span style="color: #d9ead3;">. One, less educated, as in, often, </span><span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-style: italic;">not </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">very educated. Two, white. And three, downwardly mobile. Those give us standard explanations — the downwardly mobile lash out at even more powerless groups in society, in resentment and rage at their fall. That explains Trumpism’s virulent hate and bigotry.</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a8fe" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;">But what explain Covid patients…on their deathbeds…<span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">denying Covid exists</span>?</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4264" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-weight: 700;">I think that in the end, all this goes right </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwju7fSG25HtAhVhoFkKHYHAC8UQFjAAegQIBRAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Feand.co%2Fhow-slavery-sowed-the-seeds-of-american-collapse-9df0658c4d8b&usg=AOvVaw0MEFTxyydnPYz2RPS5Xp3P" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">back to slavery</span></span></a><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-weight: 700;">. </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">It set up a kind of Nietzschean-Darwinist dichotomy, which America has never overcome. The strong survive, and the weak perish — deservedly so. Either you’re strong or you’re weak. The weak are subhuman — they deserve their exploitation, abuse, and suffering, because they are liabilities and burdens the rest of us must carry.</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8f10" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">If you believe that moral logic — even if you don’t really know you believe it, if it’s something you’ve just imbibed from your parents and elders and towns and cities, like breathing in the air — where do you end up? </span>You end up with five super, super toxic qualities. One, you’re toxically indifferent: you’re unable to care about anyone else very much, because for you, suffering is a form of weakness. Two, you’re toxically fatalistic: you believe everyone deserves what they get. Three, you’re toxically individualistic: you believe that nobody deserves anyone else’s support. Four, you’re toxically reductive: you believe life is black and white. And five, you’re nihilistic: you believe that nobody has any intrinsic worth or value, not even yourself.</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9f83" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;">You become a kind of twisted, absurd moral caricature, in other words. You think kindness is denying people healthcare — because it teaches them a <span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">lesson</span>. You think compassion is making kids pay lunch debt — because it teaches them “fiscal responsibility” (and no, that’s not even what fiscal means.) You think that to show caring, concern, empathy, thoughtfulness or curiosity is weakness. And you think, as you get a lethal disease, and you gasp for breath, that this can’t be happening to you, that it doesn’t exist, because <span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">you’re </span>not one of the weak, the hated subhumans — that’s what being intelligent is.</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5446" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">This is the kind of person the world laughs at. Not in glee, even, anymore — but in horror</span>. The world laughs because to most of the rest of it, people so twisted are genuinely almost impossible to believe in. Such people don’t seem to exist — at least in large social blocs — <span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">anywhere </span>else in the world.</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f154" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;">I’m not kidding. In Pakistan, for example, I can literally buy machine guns or even grenade launchers at the market. But nobody’s shooting up schools and carrying them to Starbucks. Nobody’s suggesting that they’re more important than education, healthcare, or jobs — no, not even the <span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">conservatives</span>.</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ee1d" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-weight: 700;">The only real analogue the world has to the American Idiot, really, is movements like the Taliban, or ISIS</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">. Movements who are </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://eand.co/this-is-how-america-becomes-a-theocracy-612360dd8df8?source=your_stories_page-------------------------------------" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">so fanatical that they develop what Americans call “alternate belief systems.”</span></a><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> They believe 72 virgins await them in heaven. The American Idiot believes Covid doesn’t exist, and they can’t get it. That a gun, not healthcare, will protect them from frailty. What’s the difference, really? Not a whole lot. Both of these social groups have developed something like mass, collective delusions, which they cling to inextricably, which nobody can prise away from them, superstitions they believe have the power to save them, which just means make them supreme. It always comes back to supremacy, this problem of human stupidity.</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="764d" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-weight: 700;">So were the Greeks right? </span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">Take a hard look at America, the Land of the Idiots. This election was a census of them, which gave us a precise headcount. America has </span><span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-style: italic;">72 million</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> American Idiots. What do you about </span><span class="kh" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-style: italic;">that many idiots</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;">? People who vote, ardently, cheer on, applaud, crave, their own self-destruction? Because — just as for ISIS or the Taliban — it’s the one thing that proves their own supremacy, the ultimate test of strength </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://eand.co/how-patriarchy-keeps-america-toxic-regressive-and-abusive-65df0177ff2e?source=your_stories_page-------------------------------------" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">and manhood</span></a><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> and all the rest of it? What do you about people so foolish they don’t “believe” in the virus that’s putting them in the ICU?</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="31ec" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">I have some good news, and I have some bad news. The bad news is that nobody knows.</span> Extremists and fanatics like this destroyed the Islamic world in record time — no, it wasn’t always the backwards place it is now. The good news is they tend to self-destruct. Idiots are martyrs. ISIS and the Taliban are happy blowing themselves up. American idiots are happy denying themselves healthcare and retirement and getting Covid. But also spreading it. The question is, then, how many of us go down with the idiots, as they self-destruct?</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e228" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="jm ki" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #d9ead3; font-weight: 700;">The Greeks were right.</span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"> There is no greater curse for a society than a surplus of idiots, and no greater danger to it than it crossing a threshold of enough idiots. They do </span><a class="cm kg" href="https://eand.co/americas-a-failing-state-biden-s-real-challenge-starts-there-d52a96368853?source=your_stories_page-------------------------------------" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">lead a nation to ruin, by way of indifference, fatalism, nihilism, selfishness, stupidity, brutality, and violence</span></a><span style="color: #d9ead3;">. They are unable to exercise the basic virtues of goodness, truth, compassion, wisdom, kindness, and concern. This most ancient of political theories — how strange that it’s turned out to be the most accurate one of all. After all, you only have to take a look at America to see it, laughing and shaking its head, down the millennia.</span></span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e228" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Umair - </span><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">November 2020</span></p><p class="jk jl fn jm b gl jn jo jp go jq jr js jt ju jv jw jx jy jz ka kb kc kd ke kf ff cg" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e228" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; margin: 2em 0px -0.46em; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: arial; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em;"><br /></span></p></div>GEFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01146744056187558931noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3311142607743131364.post-67241977505421041622020-11-14T01:23:00.009-05:002020-11-14T01:23:00.816-05:00The Photo Banter podcast interview
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