Really blown away by and incredibly moved to see the feedback the performance piece is getting.
I hope it inspires people to remember that there is no threat in questioning, but there is one in demanding absolute compliance.
Despite what Anthony Fauci and his sycophants have insisted on repeating, our individualism is not a challenge to be overcome, but rather it challenges policy to rise to meet it. His unwillingness is not for your own good, only his.
Our humanity, sense of autonomy and belief in the sanctity of each person’s possibility and pursuit of happiness is NOT something that can be sacrificed at the alter of saftyism. Ever.
You aren’t the coward.
Don’t let anyone convince you of anything different.
Remember what’s up here 🧠...the bastards can’t take.
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I do not find it reasonable to have the assumption that so many different fields we count on to assure discourse occurs regarding sensible public and social health policy both short term and long; from mental health, government, housing, even the arts utterly failed to see this.
Amplified by biases and claims of settled science, expert opinions , “virus/ panic porn” propagated by the MSM and enforced by social media; are responsible for creating an entrenched set of beliefs which ultimately pinned citizen against citizen (often for political gain.)
The notion that face masks have zero cost to the wearer or other persons has been, as suspected, false. While the ramifications have been underrated their effectiveness has been overrated.
“Psychologically, wearing facemask fundamentally has negative effects on the wearer and the nearby person. Basic human-to-human connectivity through face expression is compromised and self-identity is somewhat eliminated [47], [48], [49].
These dehumanizing movements partially delete the uniqueness and individuality of person who wearing the facemask as well as the connected person [49]. Social connections and relationships are basic human needs, which innately inherited in all people,
Wow. This may be one of the most emotionally manipulative things Ive ever heard an "activist" say. This is a photo of my best friend, Charles, and I in 2011. He was brutally murdered in 2013. dnainfo.com/new-york/20130…
He was beaten, bound, had his ear ripped off and was found with his dog Ramses curled up beside him in his blood in the morning. He and I were supposed to have dinner that night.
That week he was moving back to Houston where he was originally from to help launch a satellite office for the non profit he had dedicated himself to. I washed and cleaned his things and sent back his personal items it his family. I kept that photo I just shared; he had had it
This was how a NYU professor addressed the looting in our city. A few days later my block was also looted. I assume that it, like Soho, according to this “educator’s” theory was
not part of NYC. Now that time has passed I want people to know what really happens/has been happening to my home; our home. I hope @nyuniversity will read this and I also hope both alumni and perspective or current students will ask themselves if this is...simply put...sanity.
As one year approaches I hope my fellow NYers as well as members of the NYU community remember and/or ask what it is we wish our city and community to represent; soft bigotry, racism, faux social justice, terror? Or...the New York City that deserves and is better than this.
“I remember when people used to say “all art is sexual”, or to quote Picasso, “sex and art are the same thing”. I thought that was bonkers when I heard it, and a bit pervy, but, alas, all has changed, and now all art is political.
What we really see here is just that all art (and everything else) can be sexualized, or politicized, or seen through whichever narrow lens serves someone’s personal interests (Freudianism, Marxism, Feminism, religion, pure aesthetics…).
if you really pressed people who say all art is political, they’d probably admit that all fashion, cuisine, sports, horticulture, and everything else is political.