Protestors in the U.S. were protesting the hijacking of Maduro in solidarity with the Venezuelan people, but the Venezuelan people were dancing in the streets because Maduro was gone. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
and the path back to better
this is an interesting way to look at it and rings true with, to hijack in the funniest possible way, a term in wide circulation in certain circles, “my lived experience.” i suspect many of you hve enocountered this:
the emotional or dogmatic argument utterly impervious to logic.
i actually once had a woman i was arguing with at a party in SF tell me “logic is the tool of the oppressor!” as a final emotive bastion from being cornered by sense.
the need for reality denial, not just of facts but of its entire underpinning and structure was so acute that this episode has really stayed with me. this had to be more than just emotional thinking. it seemed fully existential, like some sort of limbic level fight or flight mechanism. and once you start noticing it, it crops up all over the place.
let’s take a little tour of the topic:
LARPers gonna LARP as they are so terribly oppressed fighting the man.
You fancy yourself a rebel but what are rebelling against as Johnny Rotten said.