#(sorry to the main tag; block me. it's a blog organizing tag for me rip)

[zeldahime]

having the occasion to muse about how i find the dissemination of images of someone's death or corpse to be extremely disrespectful to the person and their memory due to my own upbringing,

versus the way that that same dissemination of image is used in wider american culture to encourage some kind of action in their memory, in the case of martyrs at least, and for..... well i don't actually know why in many cases. martyrs are clear, but other cases are befuddling.

and because of my distaste and active avoidance of such images, i don't see them and they don't usually take up space in my mind, so when i read statements like "American culture is steeped in the social imagery of Black death" (Sutherland, 2017, Archival Amnesty: In Search of Black American Transitional and Restorative Justice, for the curious, it's a good article and i can send you a copy) i know, theoretically, what she is talking about; i know, theoretically, that those things are all over the news all the time, because that's why i don't watch cable news. but i don't feel it viscerally, like so many people must.

don't really have a point, just poking at it with a stick.