Pussy Riot/ Masks

Pussy Riot's balaclavas & ski masks, Anonymous & Guy Fawkes... what is it about masks that seem to waken this deep collective psychic & emotional resonance... something here that marks our time. Have had several unrelated conversations recently about masks. Is it that with the mask you know there is more there, that the reality is only suggested? That what is most 'real' remains hidden?

Living in a world of the Spectacle--this is a powerful reminder--of the masks we assume to be real, that we have made ourselves into. Brands. Commodities. Labels. Like money--everything of value only as something to be exchanged for something else--nothing of value in itself.

We believe there is no such thing as Truth--when it's only that Truth can never be owned, or traded or sold.  

Pussy Riot exposes our duplicity, our unreality, and must be made to suffer for it. They are more free in prison than most of us in our everyday marketable so-called lives.