God’s Entertainment
In this pandemic age, God’s Entertainment has increasingly developed a political awareness for the working class. They describe their work as a battle against “political blindness”, “civil obedience” and the “society of balconies – a structural, social privilege”. They see current developments as a threat to freedom, and their latest work attempts to meet the public sphere head-on by confronting it with their own intolerance of pseudo-solidarity and hypocrisy. What is the difference between serving and being served? – The metaphor is smarter than the author.
They use the cut-up technique to fragment the current state of society, rearrange it and render the present moment visible in the form of a DIY world system. The earth has not stopped rotating to the east, and this DIY world system, too, continues to rotate obediently and incessantly, without ever posing the question: Can we receive blows without striking back? In the same way that Socrates considered it necessary to create a tension in the mind that would prompt human beings to rise from their bondage-like dependence on myths and half-truths into the free realm of creative analysis and objective value determination, we, too, must recognise the need to create a tension in today’s society by non-violent means, thereby helping people rise from the dark depths of prejudice and class struggle and ascend to the sublime heights of mutual understanding and coexistence. The question as to whether everything you see in the video reflects your own perception and whether you should challenge the present moment is left open for everyone to decide for themselves, because every human being is condemned to freedom!
