There is No Morality in the West

It's being strangled as we speak (assuming you think it ever existed). So the part of the world that created Guernica has no right to ever say "free speech" or something about Charlie Hebdo. Or about Venezuela or anywhere else. It (and by that I mean we) is morally bankrupt to the point of boggling the mind. 
You see I wrote about a piece of street art in Rome that was dedicated to the drowning of thousands of refugees. Women and children fleeing war zones. Of course it was fucking defaced. And as the right continued to make up stories that it was all men and terrorists and what have you, Europe closed its borders because it really is close to impossible to counter the noise machine of fascism[1]. 
Well now, just as we have concentration camps to our south, we now know that European governments have the deaths of thousands (if not more) on their hands and are turning another sea into a graveyard. I'm not even sure about how we will talk about this state terrorism when another smaller act of brown terrorism happens, but I'm sure it will not be in the same shrill voice. 
Apes. All of us. But damn is it depressing.

[1] the LRB writes about this new fascism and how it doesn't control all of the methods of communication like it's most infamous iteration. But that ignores what propaganda is and how it works. It works best on the ideas of fear and protecting one's family and if you lie and lie and lie then it fucking works, people. The mode of transmission, then, for this virus is simply fear and mass media-esque tools.

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