On June 7th, 2025, protests broke out as ICE began mass arrests in Los Angeles. The government called it a “riot,” but that implies civilian-on-civilian violence. In truth, it was state forces against the people—closer to a civil war. In any civil war, the first weapon is voice: the government’s versus the people’s. Outnumbered, the state answers voice with guns. These clashes become postmodern rituals—casting one side as ultra-human, the other as ultra-un-human. Observe the ritual.
