- This interview has been condensed and shortened.
What radicalized you?
Honestly I’ll give this credit to my mother. The evangelic Christian culture I grew up in, I think is the source of that radicalization. I attended a working class church, kind of weird in Texas. One third working class black families, another one tired white families, and one third was Hispanic families, some of which didn’t even speak English very well. So it was a very broad spectrum of working class people, that are struggling to get by, [who] yearned for their salvation. That is a radical idea— [and] any liberations struggle. I think that was step one: growing up in a conservative culture where workers are not treated fairly, and being poor… But right off the bat, you can figure out the objective of the United States government since it began. The beautiful people and cultures that were destroyed. Victimizing humans in an act of tremendous terrorism. If learning something like that doesn’t radicalize you, I just really don’t know...
People were really shocked to hear you voting for Trump. I mean we’ve talked about this before but... in your words can you explain accelerationism & are you a accelerationist?
...Alright, so I really thought the decision out… At first of all we were presented with a farce, the election of a fraud... The democratic party decided that, and they decided upon someone that everyone in America fucking hates. So what role are they really playing in that electoral process, what’s happening here, I don’t think we have all the answers… We weren’t given a real option, let’s be honest with ourselves...
Working in an industry that directly relies on capitalism to catalyze sales and acknowledgement as “art” or “work” do you find yourself torn?
We’re all torn! [But] we’re not given another option...I’m constantly testing the limits of what’s “acceptable”. We can see where the border of permissible thought is. You can’t blame people for being caught in the culture… The American government has been able to inflate a very prosperous, utopian, bouncy-house, consumer economy for people, through some very vicious foreign policy decisions. But they can’t afford to do that anymore. The crimes we have commit around the planet are catching up with us, and that’s the moment we are marinating in right now. ...One practical thing that should be an obvious answer for everyone across the political spectrum [is] brand spankin’ new Constitution. Written by the American people. Not white men with property. Not people with money. Not Goldman Sachs, not any fucking politician.