La Haine et La Rage

What are the centrifugal forces pushing information flows to the margins, fostering gossip and sabotaging reliable, institutional, *-washed communication channels?

My (Tommi’s) answer is an intertwinning of Keny Arkana’s La Rage and La Haine.

As gossip is portrayed negatively and painted as empty chit-chatting, in the same way rage and hatred are seen as despicable, venomous, and perilous feelings that must be avoided. Nevertheless, their intrinsically anti-institutional, disruptive, and disobedient nature makes these sentiments the key force powering all decentralized, critical, informal organizing.

The banlieus are the embodiment of this. Ghettified, forgotten, marginalized. They survive outside of, inspite of, and because of the centralization of institutions.

What is the meaning of this within our context? I do not believe that rage and hatred are intrinsically good. I think it is paramount that care, affection, love, and empathy are to be cultivated and preserved as forces of cohesion and togetherness within a movement.