Howzit y’all? So this morning on my morning routine of wake up, make coffee and check social media I was on TikTok as one does and guess what y’all? I found out that after the MET Gala recently people weren’t having the hunger games level dystopia. I mean I don’t know about y’all, but $75,000 per ticket and roughly $350,000 per table is absolutely tone deaf with what’s going on in the world. I’m sure I could find a list of who all was at the MET Gala and then what fashion companies paid for certain table and if I were to run the numbers I’m fairly certain that at the absolute very lowest estimates of money made you’re looking at several million dollars easily.
Meanwhile on the crisis bingo card we’ve got housing crisis, inflation out of control, genocide in both Palestine and the Congo, police being deployed as personal attack dogs by college administrators and all I’m left to wonder is how you square being okay with all these issues? I mean shit, seventy-five grand for a freaking ticket to the Hunger Games fashion show is more than I made the entirety of last year working full time hours. Y’all see the dysfunction in that? Like listen, I don’t have all the answers; nor have I ever really claimed to be much of an authority on anything. That being said, per my previous post and in the words of an old college friend “Cool thing about math is that numbers don’t care about your feelings, they are what they are.”
Those numbers are obscene, unethical numbers. It’s my opinion, that if you’re making that level of money? You’re likely doing something unethical like exploiting your workforce to get there. I mean there’s a reason there’s a sentiment of “eat the rich” everywhere you look nowadays. It’s worth noting too that there’s a difference between working hard, building a local company or business and becoming independently wealthy and having a mega corporation business like Amazon that has branches everywhere and millions of employees that get exploited pretty regularly. It’s like apples and oranges y’all.
I’ll tell you what though y’all, as I’ve ben out on my patio this morning with my coffee, phone and laptop taking part in the worldwide protest in support of and solidarity with the Palestinian people it’s somewhat therapeutic looking at the list of celebrities available on social media platforms that have stood silently and done nothing while tens of thousands of Palestinians are ethnically cleansed and not only blocking them one by one, but also blocking their products, brands and services.
If you’re like me and protesting agains the genocides in Palestine and the Congo don’t lose heart. With as much information as is being shared around? I reckon that someone somewhere has a live webpage showing in real time the drop in followers of all these celebrities and public figures that’ve stayed silent. With public opinion of congresspeople, senators and celebrities at an all time low and the pressure mounting from all the worldwide protests? I reckon it’s only a matter of time until they want to offer us a seat at the table to discuss terms.
Holy Water, Burning Man 