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They Wear The Mask And Their Face Grows To Fit It

by Axebreaker

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The key to understanding instances of mass violence is the effect of narrative framing / it is born of narratives of insecurity / within a framework of radicalization / as violence is not the product of religion or culture / receptive to extremism / through insecurity / but through their own insecurities / insecurities
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In acts of self-erasure / They remove their faces / assemble a faceless front / disappearing act / vacancies / the ritual of the mask / the ritual of the mass / to become invisible / to become unreasonable / forgotten to themselves / a vanishing self / vanishing self / gone, in a monolith of annihilation / they wear this mask and their face grows to fit it
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It is a continuum: the use of state-sanctioned brutality and suppression, the encouragement of right-wing fringe violence. Cruelty and complicity. The ability to disassociate protestor from individual, Black person from human being; a colonizer mentality that views everyone else as the other. Knowing nods between patriot groups and their edification of power; their longing to police, but foregoing the call to LARP as special forces. A strange and dangerous nexus of authoritarianism and vigilantism, bolstered by the executive branch. Alleged law and order upheld by columns of violence and extremism––the pillars of tyranny. But "when the white man turns tyrant," Orwell writes, "it is his own freedom that he destroys."

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released November 6, 2020

Vocals, Korg Ms-20, Moog Little Phatty, Field Recordings, Cymbal, Tapes, Oscillators by Terence Hannum

Mastered by Jake Reid at the Ice Station (icestationstudio.com)

Samples by the National Guard (sound cannons used against protestors of the murder of George Floyd) and the Minneapolis Police Department (abandoning their 3rd precinct)

Photo by J. M. Giordano (jmgiordanophotography.com), taken during the uprising following the murder of Freddie Gray. View the collection at jmgiordanophotography.com/copriot

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