Vignettes by Conor Hultman
Language can be brutal. It describes mere circumstances. The dry detachment hits harder. People are, by their very nature, emotional folks. Claiming otherwise is a lie. When a person talks about how analytical they are, how calm, cool, and collected they are, know 100% that is a lie. Be afraid of people like that, because those are the ones that snap. You need to be careful in general. Not to the point of paranoia, but depending on the social circumstances, it is not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
Discoveries across America prove what a violent country it is. Blame whatever you want for that essential fact, but it is that – a fact. The United States did not have to go this route, yet it did, for reasons that elude authorities. Authorities, at their best, can take down the information, share it, and encourage others to share the information in hopes of tracking down the responsible parties.
Articles of clothing are taken down as inventory. Tattoos are identifying marks. Records exist of tattoos as a form of distinction. When you put that on your body, individuals recognize you, know your body, and what it does distinctly. Some people, worldwide, never have a single tattoo applied to their bodies. Others receive numerous them, trying to outdo one another with the sheer weight of artistic vision applied to their vessels.
We can take many ways to differentiate ourselves from each other. The era of mass customization is here. Yet, fashionable garments usually follow an extremely narrow band. If you want to be relevant, cool, hip, respectable, there are specific paths to travel. This is why certain professions get distinguishing marks. Notice how cops often have a distinctive mustache, or how members of the air force sometimes wear pajamas? There are reasons behind it.
Documentation of the cruel society we live in is everywhere. We are regularly exposed to it. They call it suffering porn because, as much as we are suffering, we like knowing someone out there is suffering much more. When Peter Sotos made Buyer’s Market, people considered it disgusting, even though all those recordings were available to the public, literally broadcast on television in some cases, multiple times, perhaps hundreds of times. Yet the process of compiling all that information was the scary thing, rather than the info resting out there in the wild. The evidence of the crime disturbed people more than the crime itself, and that really says a lot.
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