My Jandek Plague Journal: 5/14/20 "Fragmentation"

"The form of a corporation is delimited/Why is it so vernacular/When you talk to a man/How do you get through." I saw that the Streets had a new track out when I went to listen to Jandek and turned it off when I got to the line about eating "uncooked bat." A quick read-through of the lyrics shows no criticism of a failed government response. Likewise, two days ago Bryan Adams posted his outrage at his tour being canceled due to "bat eating [...] bastards." These moments are notable because they show fascist language and ideas seeping into pop culture. It's evidence of people, consciously or unconsciously, falling in line. Fault doesn't lie in the still questionable origin of the virus, it lies in the response to it. Every country knew this was coming with the start of the new year. The return to deflecting blame onto China instead of implementing a functional plan shows that 5 months in, they still don't have one. -5/14/20. "Fragmentation" from Khartoum (lyrics) (one week earlier) (one week later)