On a completely different planet, in a distant and alien world, a week ago, quite unexpectedly for earthlings, the Oscar ceremony was held.
And the results of this award are only now starting to show.
Aliens walked along the red carpet, very secular and confident, refined, easily carried their bodies in incredible clothes – neither I nor my friends will ever achieve this, and our grandchildren and grandchildren will not, and until the seventh generation – at least you have been living in California your whole life, at least At least cover up your innate incompetence for the rest of your life with some cool stuff.
And when everyone was quiet in the hall, a talented black joker played a failed joke, another black joker’s pun about his wife and her bald head wasn’t very good. And (his wife) came on stage and gave a tambourine to another black with a good wave. He stood up for his wife. If I were my wife, I would be happy and proud, and I would like someone to stand up for me.
Actually, that’s all. Thank God, they were both black – otherwise, of course, it would have been a nuclear war.
No, not all. A week later it turned out that they were all gone.
It was exactly a week before there was a (delayed) public reaction, because the public shock and trauma from the slap was so strong that it was impossible to react in any way before, but it had to be digested first.
All week drawing memes from that famous Oscar slap choreography. And they discussed one important thing: is it okay to beat a tambourine on the person who publicly insulted your wife? And is it true? Personally, I think so, and I am very sad that the dueling days have passed, my b will – everyone would be at the barrier.
They thought and thought … Still, it can be attributed to the excesses of show business, where the scope of hooliganism is somewhat wider than a simple colorless layman, but it did not work out.
Society thought and thought and decided that you have no right to use force in this way, no matter how justified your reasons.
After some thought, in the best Cancellation Kulche tradition (cancellation culture), society “canceled” Will Smith in figs. In the case of the right-wing Trotskyist-Zinoviev bloc, he had to write down words familiar to us from the court records: “I offended everyone, Chris Rock, his family, friends and relatives, as well as all his guests. ceremony and worldwide audience. I betrayed the academy’s trust and deprived other nominees and winners of the opportunity to celebrate and receive awards for their achievements. My heart is broken,” Will Smith had to say.
It didn’t help. He was expelled from the Oscar Film Academy. Netflix and Sony Pictures refused to work with him and stopped the production of films with his participation.
From experience it turned out that it is impossible not only to pinch women, but also to beat men.
This is an important event. It’s more important than it seems. After some hesitation, society decided that it was not ready for even the slightest manifestation of violence like a slap. Even among blacks (if the slap had been interracial, the alarm would have sounded immediately). Interesting. Will Smith is the representative of a passionate black (African-African-American) culture that still bleeds and makes an exhausted, battered European jealous. Right there, it seems, you can still stand up for the honor of a friend, shout “fuck you” with a thunderous voice to the whole hall and adorn the enemy under Khokhloma. But no.
As you know, there is an exclusive state monopoly on violence. This is its main function. And if this is not the case, if violence is distributed to different groups, different criminals and students, if you can defend your justice with impunity for rape, then no matter how it is understood, then there is no state power and there is no state instead of a country. you have a “failed status” (status failed).
In all other situations and for everyone, violence is completely prohibited. It cannot be accepted as a justified (as it is) slap, both in the form of self-defense and when a separate permission is required for self-defense.
People relaxed, softened, avoided hitting their faces, getting into their faces, being slapped in the face is scandalous. So where should we put it, the natural powerhouse? For the past 30 years, baffled sociologists have been confounding what they call the “major drop in violence,” the “decrease in crime.”
It is believed that society is steadily on its way to progress, nonviolence, peace, cats and hugs, inclusion of various groups who have suffered discrimination in the past in society, broadly understood inclusion, and this is true and sometimes it is. it doesn’t seem so, then it seems so. It’s just a small setback, a small counter-movement on a broad path of advancement.
The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the editors’ position.
Source: Gazeta
