{"id":14506,"date":"2020-09-24T18:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/?p=14506"},"modified":"2020-09-24T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:22:44","slug":"pig-fucking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/pig-fucking\/","title":{"rendered":"Pig Fucking"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago, I watched the first episode of the British TV series Black Mirror<\/strong><\/a>, expecting a clever Sci Fi drama, since it was being compared to the Twilight Zone.<\/p>\n

In the episode, a member of the British royal family is kidnapped and will only be released if the British prime minister fucks a pig on live television. A wild, perverse premise with an obvious critique of contemporary culture. One of the actors described the topic as “humiliation, and the public’s appetite for humiliation”. Fair enough, in part.<\/p>\n

I still feel shaken as I remember watching it. I think I went from amusement to disbelief to anxiety to abject horror and grief. Notice how this trajectory follows the one we’ve endured with the presidency of Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

In the show, we see the varying reactions of TV viewers as they watch the spectacle play out. Many are crying. I cried with them, because I’m sensitive<\/em>, alright?<\/p>\n

I remember complaining for days and weeks that I was permanently traumatized, even though it was only TV.<\/p>\n

Now, watching Trump on TV, I feel the same horror welling up, but I’m too scared to cry. Maybe later. Every utterance and gesture is revolting, shameless, viscerally repugnant, like the Prime Minister fucking a pig. When he holds forth at his rallies, his tone strikes me as a mixture of Mussolini and Rodney Dangerfield. I’m actually embarrassed for him, because I’m a human being.<\/p>\n

How one stupid fat bully could succeed in corrupting the entire government and breaking the whole country, I will never understand. But here we are.<\/p>\n

I keep reflecting on Black Mirror, against my will, because my brain is looking for a reference point, I guess. What I want to know is this: ARE WE THE PIG?<\/p>\n

Or is Trump both the pig and the pig fucker?<\/p>\n

That’s all I’ve got today, sorry. I just wanted to check in.<\/p>\n

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