I'm beginning to get scared.
Added 2020-05-30 21:00:03 +0000 UTCIf anyone is following the news recently it's becoming clear that mobs can form at the drop of a hat. Justified or unjustified it seems that there's a very real desperation to find a target to call "evil" and attack unmercifully.
The reason I titled this "I'm beginning to get scared" is because I have this encroaching feeling of a fate worse than death coming my way as a result of the kind of fetish art I make. Besides the personal guilt I wrestle with from time to time, I find I'm becoming more terrified of an angry mob being directed my way through the unpredictable channels of the internet.
I'm not saying I'm going to disappear (although these feelings are why I did the first time all those years ago), but I am saying that I'm really getting scared.
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It's a sad day when we find empirical data for why we need assault rifles so to protect the individual from the mob. When people live in civilised society where the worst of human nature is suppressed for so long and the best of human nature optimised we forget how bad people can really be. This isn't an accident either all of the worst people have to offer is being elicited by the politicians and media we're supposed to be able to trust to maintain civilisation not turn it into some kind of post apocalyptic wasteland. I guess as long as you don't own a brick and mortar small business you're fine though. Don't flaunt your riches. https://streamable.com/ibwexe What is it we called it when people would attack Jewish shops?
User
2020-05-31 16:28:44 +0000 UTCComan dude... Chill... You will be fine... Just stay away from the streets for couple of days and all will be good... Besides your art is great... Am in no place to tell you not to be anxious or worry... But i think most feel the same... Just thinking about it doesn't really solve anything... Watch Netflix and chill
2020-05-31 15:05:08 +0000 UTCWell we all need to vent out once and awhile when everyone get nervous sometimes. But don't worry man just keep doing what you do best and don't let fear takeover.
Italic
2020-05-31 03:14:47 +0000 UTCYep crazy shit going down here
joseph restrepo
2020-05-31 03:08:53 +0000 UTCYou're too kind. This made me calm down quite a bit :)
Laptop123
2020-05-31 02:18:57 +0000 UTCI get scared when angry mobs are out and about. I guess I'm just venting my anxiety. I get nervous easily.
Laptop123
2020-05-31 02:18:20 +0000 UTCPeople able to allow their inner desires to escape threw artistic expression have always been persecuted by people who have their desires suppressed and hidden. There is no reason to feel guilty about being honest.
2020-05-31 02:16:48 +0000 UTCWait are you talking about a Protest that is happening in Minnesota with George Floyd death?
Italic
2020-05-31 00:39:28 +0000 UTCEveryone understands why
Laptop123
2020-05-31 00:23:59 +0000 UTCI support you and your predators!!!!!! love the artwork you had done!!!! Keep up the good work!!!!! If you have a female predator Id love to adopt one LOL. :) #1!!!
2020-05-30 23:55:56 +0000 UTCWe all support you man, always!
2020-05-30 22:31:03 +0000 UTCLaptop do you understand why people are rioting?
Shlirm
2020-05-30 22:03:32 +0000 UTCI suppose you're right and thanks! I guess I'm fine,..so long as there isn't a slow news day if you know what I mean. I've seen teenagers publicly humiliated nationwide for wearing a China themed dress to their prom. Or a genuinely kind person called evil for a tweet from 12 years ago that anyone could have said.
Laptop123
2020-05-30 21:23:42 +0000 UTCI get it, but your art and that kind of art will never be part of such riots. Look I get you are afraid, but take it from a writer who has published some rough novels. They are just art. Your art is art. The things I write, the stuff you draw, fascinates us, we explore themes but art is fantasy, it is entertainment and a shit Storm will only kill your career if you agree on the Premise that you are doing something wrong. As long as you can hold your head High, go - this is Just art. Nothing more nothing Else. Art and artist are not the same thing, and try not to care too much about stuff, you are good
Martin Dan Rasmussen
2020-05-30 21:21:38 +0000 UTCYou will be fine mate. Understand what you feel I imagine most of us do. Simple fact is realistically there are much easier scapegoats than us so we will be fine in that regard
2020-05-30 21:13:01 +0000 UTCIn more ways than you know. I would be nothing without you guys
Laptop123
2020-05-30 21:12:50 +0000 UTCShit storm/career assassination is the more likely but at this point who knows. In America right now there is just pure pandemonium! I'm watching footage of almost every American city under assault from rioters.
Laptop123
2020-05-30 21:12:06 +0000 UTCDont worry man we support you
2020-05-30 21:07:29 +0000 UTCWhat kind of mob do you fear? Physical or shit Storm?
Martin Dan Rasmussen
2020-05-30 21:07:15 +0000 UTC