October 10, 2016

Last one, promise

editor:	Gurmeet Singh

There's a hurricane which has recently killed over 800 people; There's violence in Kashmir. There are malevolent police killings of children in Kenya. There are messes all over the place in South America.

And yet I want to talk about Trump. It's the last time, I promise. Maybe.

It's not out of an aimless content creation purpose, nor is it to say 'for sure, isn't it stupid, this stuff he's saying' - that's been done a lot, and there's no need to add to that chorus.

No, I want to just add a note to something I've thought for a while - but never really had the time nor opportunity to express: Donald Trump enables ecstatic celebration.

This isn't just because he 'sticks a finger in the eye' of the establishment - something many millions of people would like to do. It's because he is the projected will of a slice of the American populace, gratifying itself.

What do I mean? Well, if a politician is in a sense who we make them to be, who we want them to be, then it's clear that we project certain things onto them: Thatcher the milk snatcher, De Gaulle the great...the idea's pretty basic, really - people are who you perceive them to be, and you perceive them to be the things you turn them into. These projections come from one's own deep desires - and in the case of Trump, the deep desire is to not only defeat Clinton or build a wall, it's to kill beauty itself.

Americans, at least a part of them, are sick of beauty. They are sick of Barack Obama's beautiful (black) face, they are sick of his beautiful words, they are sick of beautiful ideas. They want big, meaty ugliness, big meaty white ugliness to beat senseless the delicate bitches and fags and blacks who've turned their country into something they don't recognise. This is what they want - to assert their own ugly feelings onto the rest of America, and by extension, the world. Whatever desperation in their lives, whether of their own making or Life's, is being transformed into a destructive, outward power which looks to erase all forms of beauty and grace and light which aspires to better things for all - think I'm exaggerating? Just check this out.

This is nothing new, of course. Every now and then there's an ugly person who draws onto them the ugly feelings of others. What's new about this is just how out of hand this is getting. No one thought Donald Trump was a feminist, but it was indeed surprising to hear him talk about grabbing women 'by the pussy'. And what's more, when he doesn't pay tax and claims to be of the people (not surprising) - it is surprising to hear people celebrate him nonetheless. After all, who cares about his affairs - he's doing everything people have wanted to do for the past 8 years - as though his big flabby body were a proxy for a voter's very own - get out in front of the world, and rage, fume and stalk about - strip down whatever is beautiful about an imperfect system, and replace it with its own raging, pointless self. Trump probably did grab women by the pussy once - it's just such a shame that so many people want him to grab America by the balls, and replace them with his own.