An interesting aside. After a lifetime of living completely perplexed
by what humans around me were talking about and doing, I was
recently diagnosed as having autism. I have trouble locating people
by their faces, and facial expressions are often completely opaque
to me-- they make no sense at all, or, the sense the facial expressions
make, don't match the words or the tones of voice. I've realized from
this video that this feeling of profound revulsion is part of what I relate
to, in your videos. The Western World doesn't make sense to me,
perhaps for completely other reasons than yours, but I definitely
relate to the horror and exasperation of trying to exist in a world where
the dominant paradigm is this strange neo-liberal duplicity. It's not
so much that I want to be part of it, because I don't... but even figuring
out how to navigate within it, has been a vast and exhausting
excercise in futility for me. I think Marechera is a sort of
patron saint of people stuck in this culture of maddening perversity.