Hadiyah's Blog

In class, we talked about the current state of Jes Grew. Something that stood out to me was how Jes Grew would probably be a part of popular culture and could be mistaken for just entertainment. I started to think about how some movies, shows, music, etc could be a form of Jes Grew. To me, current day Jes Grew would probably be any form of protest art. Art is a form of entertainment, and if it’s protesting anything, it’s usually for something “natural”, and Jes Grew is pro-natural stuff.  One of my favorite musicians is Grandson. I’d classify most of his songs as protest art. His song “Blood // Water” is about political corruption, “Thoughts and Prayers” is a critique of American gun laws, “6:00” is about police brutality, and “Overdose” is about drug abuse. The list goes on and on. I really like listening to his music because it not only has a nice sound, it also addresses these social issues. Grandson is able to make fun music while getting important messages across. He also...

When we were discussing the difference between history & fiction and what a postmodernist history might look like, one of the things that came to mind was a book I had read,  The Man in the High Castle  by Philip K. Dick (it’s also a TV show now). It’s basically an alternative history. It follows different people living in a reality where Germany and Japan won World War II. That’s already an interesting idea but to make it even wackier, there is a book in the novel that different characters come across,  The Grasshopper Lies Heavy . That book is about an alternate reality where Germany and Japan lost the war. So, I’m reading a book set in an alternate reality in which people are reading a book set in an alternate reality which is my reality? Can it get any weirder? Spoiler alert – yes. Apparently, the author of  The Grasshopper Lies Heavy  consulted the I Ching to write his book. The I Ching is a source of divine fate and inner truth, so its predictions alw...