Future Arts & Cultural Production Will Unleash A Tsunami of Solidarity

Silencing politicians, academics, parents and generally people with anything to lose might be easy to do, but good luck trying to silence the next generation of artists, musicians, film directors, writers, poets, photographers and all the other creatives that make up the global culture.

The violent suppression of anti-genocide speech on university campuses all across the country is trying to maintain the status quo. The idea is very simple and even more calculated: scare as many bright minds at the height of their creative and intellectual production as possible and you will win the long game. Except, they won’t. Except, they’ve simply sowed countless more seeds of defiance in the minds of the next generation.

Let’s not forget, creative output lags physical movements such as protests and encampments, but creative output ultimately shapes wider culture. One key reason is simply that the powerful algorithms that drive western economies thrive on creative people making viral content.

Engagement—the singular metric that drives profits for all types of technology companies needs this type of hyper creative arts and cultural output in order to survive. Silencing and suppression of viral creative output will come at a painfully lethal cost to the bottom lines of all types of companies and they will do everything in their power to fight against such profit-killing decisions (or at least their investors won’t allow them to do it).

The opening shots from the student movement in solidarity against live-streamed genocide are the university encampments. These can be physically torn down by tax-funded law enforcement officers, but the seeds of the solidarity encampment planted in the minds of hyper creative university students around the country and world are only just beginning to sprout. Watch out!

Together we will win.