THE CHURCH OF.......

     It seems that this is the way it will go with this blog. I have to take breaks. I’ve tried to keep up the pace of daily posts, but it’s too much. Nobody has that much to say….even me. So once in a while I’ll just stop until the pump can be primed again. But, it doesn’t take long before I’m forced to say something. The one thing you can count on in the Trump era (be you living in the country or sweating it out in city) is that this administration is fucking action packed. Climate change, pastoral (or antipastoral) wars only a week old, looming impeachment, incitements, and congressional oversight be damned. Today it’s all about one stupid video.

    If you haven’t seen it just google “church of fake news.” As a fellow “Church of….” this or that, I feel a kinship to this discussion. There’s a lot of Church “ofs.” There’s Church “of” Jesus Christ “of“ Latter Day Saints, Church “of” Satan, Church “of” the Sub Genius and of course The Church “of” the Little Green Man. If fact if you google “Church of” today the only church that will show up is The Church of Fake News. This church is dominating the news cycle.

   I watched the vid. in question. It’s funny to me. I would like to see a cell phone video of all the Trump supporters in the room cracklng up as it played. That would be funnier. The outrage of the left that accompanies the discovery of said video at a Trump campaign “meet and greet” at Trump Doral seems misplaced and rather pathetic. Trump is the master of distraction. Why do you communists always play into his hand? This stupid video is of no consequence whatsoever. South Park could grab the entire thing, never do an edit, air it in it’s entirety and the left would think it was hilarious. The context is what is important. But, then again why should we (communists) be surprised or care?

     It’s the church thing. I understand. OK. I see how this can push some buttons—Dylann Roof and all. Yet, I can also see this as the more redneck, secular Trump hillbillies, shooting themselves in the foot with the evangelical, hypocrite Trump supporters. Win win. Let them hang themselves. There again, in a week that has Turkey invading Syria, Guilianni’s associates arrested, expert witnesses testifying before Congress, impeachment on the horizon, why does this stupid video get so much press?

   It is because it speaks to our core as a consumer capitalism  Judeo/Christian society. Those almost “subliminal cuts” of the exterior of a country church, the sign CHURCH OF FAKE NEWS and the sound of crickets, anchors us in an idyl, a pastoral, that is ripped apart by the anti-hero Trump. It’s orgasmic. He excises the cancerous critics, adversaries and infidels; while outside all is calm. The money changers are expelled from the Temple in another Orwellian twist of Trump’s regime. Two plus Two equals Five. I see where they are going.

    Don’t get me wrong. I love the video. It’s genius. It exemplifies the spirit of the moment way better than CNN, NBC or even Al Jazeera ever could accomplish. And now that the internet has captured it—carved it in stone so to speak—the monuments of marble cannot compete. History has taken over. John Heartfield would be proud. I don’t know who authored this video, but the Yesmen, South Park and Anonymous all have to be green with envy. Who’s laughing at whom? Beware the Church of anything. Maybe this is a touchstone, something that will resonate historically. Or it’s just another forgotten news cycle in a narrativ that is more and more frightening by the day. We’ll see what happens.