confession

For far longer than I care to ad­mit, I was one of those peo­ple im­pli­cat­ed when the an­noy­ing pub­lic ra­dio dri­ves would come on:

“Maybe you lis­ten every day. Pub­lic ra­dio is an im­por­tant, even es­sen­tial, part of your life. But you haven’t your­self com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing it.”

It’s been a long time, but there were (gaw!) years when lazi­ness and a chal­lenged bud­get, what­ev­er, let me let oth­ers car­ry the ball.

You might be one of those peo­ple in re­la­tion to vot­ing. You’re sick of the dri­ves, sick of the pres­sure, sick of the whole damn don­key and ele­phant show. Pri­vate­ly, you might be telling your­self no one will know if you just sit it out. And you have to work or what­ev­er and the sys­tem is cor­rupt as fck anyway.

You might not be­lieve that this coun­try is flirt­ing with fas­cism – or care. 

You might not look back at his­to­ry and won­der how so­ci­eties them­selves sup­port (or – worse – sup­port by de­fault) ris­ing au­thor­i­tar­i­an regimes. As some­one of Ger­man de­scent, who has fret­ted a lot about how forces of ha­tred come into pow­er in a high­ly ‘civ­i­lized’ so­ci­ety and de­vel­op their own ‘cre­ative’ ex­pres­sion of fevered na­tion­al­ism and vil­i­fi­ca­tion of ‘the oth­er,’ I am giv­en ev­i­dence, in this mo­ment, in this coun­try, that it doesn’t ‘just hap­pen,’ that we are of­fered a chance as in­di­vid­u­als to in­ject our voice, to re­ject ha­tred and fear and ig­no­rance and in­hu­man­i­ty and run­away greed. 

One way or an­oth­er WE change his­to­ry. To not act is to act. Don’t fool your­self. There is no sit­ting on the sidelines.

For God’s sake, do your part and vote.

… Oh and sup­port pub­lic ra­dio – every con­tri­bu­tion matters.
 
 

—lau­ra hohlwein

Flom­mist Lau­ra Hohlwein is a con­tem­po­rary ab­stract sur­re­al­ist. Copy­right © 2018 Lau­ra Hohlwein. Im­age source.

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