The Pleasure of Dirt when you are.
A preview from the past by Oscar Wilde: "People will adopt bizzarre in the name of fashion but not of beauty. Even if they will, they would understand that it's beauty after quite some time."
What does it mean, society of wannabe androids?
Something bad is really and fully happening to Freedom that has been trapped till yesterday: "It might be I'm wrapped in an hotel's sheets, on the road or in a black bag. It might be I'm inside of a luggage, left on a beach or I'm lost in a street. Don't be scared when you see me stabbed, don't scream when you see them throw me away, don't cry.
They will tell you it was my fault. (...) They will tell you I lived, I dared to fly too high in a world without air!" - Non Una di Meno movement’s speech (Italy)
Under the cover, there is a CD and inside of it: a different vision all at once.
Like in late 1990s when my younger sister and I found out about Madonna in this way:
At that time there wasn’t enough money for all the Music we needed so they used to make fake CDs only to let people buy the songs at the less price possible; this also means that someone somewhere had to create these kind of unofficial compilations..Me and my sister were kids so we thought it was the original first Madonna’s album because, as you can see, that songs order really works!
Today, I surprisingly discover a new possible side and sound of the old Madonna, the one you are trying to re-write so I guess you really didn’t learn the lesson. First book to open up then: SEX by Madonna (1992).
I see a certain vivid cultural distorsion full of dumb lies all around. I also see a big crowd made up of people appluding, press faking and establishment getting really old trying to transform Art into something less valuable then their own strategic and convenient rules. At the same time, it seems they still hope for (a very interesting) Courtney Love to remain obscure despite her speaking or singing or visualizing a videoclip in the late 80s that is more contemporary than any "content" made in 2026.
I'm not mad about it just like you. It's only aesthetic, right? Have you ever been in India? Have you ever visit their factories? Have you ever met an Indi person and its kids? You'll find them all living inside the factory working very hard in order to let the "big applauding crowd" receive their trendy dress right on time for your Instagram show.
What I mean loud and clear is: it's crazy when the ones with opportunities make aesthetic prevail without even contemplating existence of words, culture and surrounded by only some noise that sounds really good, nowadays. A noise that might sound like "lobby gay", still speaking about cultural distorsion. What does #LobbyGay represent exactly, dear journalists? You invented it and it only confuses People, decisions, opinions, conversations. Look for any other randomly possible synonymous, am I wrong?
At school, they taught me that at a certain point of human history, People had to recognize themselves as "Global" or "No Global" on the same planet Earth where Madonna is ridiculous because of her age or Courtney Love and her Hole band don't exist at all. May I say - not too loud - that probably they are artists (go google Veronica Ciccone) who have always tried to experiment themselves against a society full of petrified faces (?).
Scrolling feeds and perfect social media profiles, a future full of silence seems prospected, in a World full of greys and glass coloured screens with compulsive selfies (I'd rather tons of kittens pics instead).
Respecting anyone who might happen to be here, I say only culture - not only heritage - makes us lives, active and thinkers and that's how I handshake without hating in the first place, considering everyone equals always, anywhere. Given my cultural position though, I know anyway if behind that hand shaked there is the responsable of this big fake show where someone applied real smiles over real tears in order to keep them ignorant for the disgusting interests of a few.
So.. you'd rather beauty or honesty? Switch on your precisely straight TV-Vatican.
This editorial project' social debt prevails from here on and it started 8 years ago to the industrial cosmetic system of the Philippines (meaning one Brand only). Let me explain: a Filipino brand gifted this magazine with a make-up set made of handmade packaging, natural pigments, organic ingredients; means all of the Philippines's treasure in one lipstick and despite that I thought they were toxic (I perfectly know how to read INCI btw). Thank you lobby-gay-influencers, thanks European burocratic territorial Union. Just to keep you aknowledged, social debt is what an Industry owe to society but this .com space consider it as its neverending disgust for Institutions as first impression. For the record: I studied, I always voted but now I refuse the news. Am I allowed? Let me know.
You should also know another notion further: selfdetermination
Once you need, once you are, once you/it/them exist, you have the full right to be recognized and legitimized. That's what Law taught me and experience made me mad about. If Art is less serious or not enough stable or we should find the most convenient way in order to be, then you should stop presuppose what I/we/them need or at least try to find a new way to let us judge ourselves.
I feel we are competing in a race I don't want to join because I'm not interested in the prize neither in the "fun" of this competition itself. What's your fun in it? Leave a comment, I'm definitely curious about it.
This been thought and written down ..and speaking about kittens: Ulisse, my cat since 2011 is gone. We used to dance together on Crazy for you by Madonna.
Beauty it's our only neverending story. 🖤
See you.
- written by Simonetta Waïss
