George Floyd Had Very Little to Do With the 2020 Uprisings

The particular details of any case such as George Floyd's are largely, unfortunately, immaterial to the response such cases provoke in the society at large. A healthy society would be able to deal with single instances of injustice such as these on their own terms. We do not have a healthy society. These uprisings happen because there is a permanent underclass in our nation, the social contract has been broken, and the power our state exercises over us is illegitimate. You cannot expect an unjust system such as ours to deliver justice, neither for a killer cop nor for the person he killed. Our criminal justice system is too perverted to ever deliver anything resembling justice with any kind of consistency. When it comes to the rule of law and our faith in it, consistency is key. In America, there is no such thing. It doesn’t take a saint to cause the explosion, just an inexorable accretion of deep indignities and the right person in the wrong place at the wrong time. And that person could be you. We are, all of us, dancing on kindling. You don't fix that danger by arguing against matches. You clean up the kindling. Get full access to Weird Catastrophe by Kody Cava at weirdcatastrophe.substack.com/subscribe