Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Word Of The Day

KOYAANISQATSI

April 5, 2022

This became one of my favorite words of all time after I saw the brilliant, moving and unique 1983 Godfrey Reggio documentary of the same name.

We have not yet been able to rid ourselves of the disgraced, twice-impeached, seditious, sociopathic, Putin-loving ex-president and failed blogger Donald Tmurp.

We had to endure a bunch of horrible white men flinging their misogynistic, mostly racist, Qanon-embracing feces at the eminently qualified Ketanji Brown Jackson as she endured the disgraceful Supreme Court confirmation process. A process which more resembled Franz Kafka’s In The Penal Colony than a job interview. In Kafka’s disturbing story, the brutal torture brought to bear on the accused was in response to assumed guilt of some crime. In Jackson’s hearing, the Ratpublican inquisitors did less inquiring than they did make shit up to score points with the lunatic fringe whose undying, unthinking, ungodly support they need to keep their dangerous careers afloat.

And we continue to watch in disbelief and abject horror the surreal bloodbath perpetrated upon the innocent people of Ukraine at the hands of Tmurp’s BFF Putin as the Russian autocrat tries, with a remarkable degree of insanity, to reconstitute the long-dead Soviet Union, on his way to his imagined world domination.

Not to mention the ever-accelerating climate crisis, continuously and resolutely ignored by the entire Ratpublican Party and far too many American citizens despite the overwhelming evidence that we are on the verge of global environmental collapse, making our beautiful, relatively essential planet inhospitable for human survival.

That, and so much more, makes today’s word of the day as applicable and indispensable as ever.

Koyaanisqatsi, baby!


Koyaanisqatsi – the trailer

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