In the USA – ‘I Cannot Write!’ – ANDRE VLTCHEK

This is a point of view seldom heard in the West, so I pass it on to you.
In the USA – ‘I Cannot Write!’ by ANDRE VLTCHEK From CounterPunch, June 19, 2015, At the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), in Los Angeles, a gigantic, carnivorous flag with torn ends was waving in an artificial wind created by enormous propellers.
There were no visitors at the exhibition. For a while I thought that in all this huge space I was totally alone. But soon I noticed two figures in black torn dresses, moving slowly, in semi-darkness, desperately clinging to the walls. Backs bent, they passed by the bookstore right near the place where someone had put a small sign on the wall that said, ‘I cannot breathe!’
Most likely it was a performance, a desperate protest action of one man and one woman, a performance against this giant all-devouring flag.
‘I cannot breathe!’ A man shouted before he died, before he was murdered by the regime.
‘I cannot write!’ I thought. Which to me was almost the same as not being able to respire.
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It was the first time in many years that I had missed my column, my essays, for several weeks.
Even when I was arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Kenya, in Senegal, I still managed to write.

This post was published at Paul Craig Roberts on June 20, 2015.