#about salo and the tension betweeen what it is & what pasolini said it is & his own death

[chthonic-cassandra]

Thinking about the popular idea that direct violence is the domain of the lower classes because those in power don't 'need' to use it to cause harm. How this idea is often framed as leftist but is in fact profoundly reactionary, how it colludes unwittingly with a system that makes invisible the ways people in power have always used direct violence without consequence, how it continues the cycle of silencing survivors when their stories and needs are politically inconvenient and how much I hate hate hate every single instance of the violence as metaphor thing.

#yes: even that one that came to your mind that you thought was wise #or politically useful #every single instance #violence #against libertinage #there's a much longer exegesis of this post #about salo and the tension betweeen what it is & what pasolini said it is & his own death #violence as metaphor thing