This is my first post here in The Metamorphosis of 2024. I’ve frankly been pondering what to comment about and whether or not the idea for The Metamorphosis, the intersection of Race, Culture & Media still has salience for me. Whether indeed I have any more I really want to say on the subject. And whether I have the skill to make anyone care about what to me remains the central question of what it means to be a human be-ing living under this American regime.
Identity matters. Race matters. The System matters. Humanity matters. Who and what we think we are and what we think we deserve in the life matters. How we treat each other and ourselves is all tied up with that notion that there’s something that lives beyond this “veil of tears.” In Becker’s parlance (which I’ve discussed previously) The Denial of Death.
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