Tyler Gillespie      St. Petersburg    (Dustin Brookshire)
britney spears argues a specific worldview. posits


Britney Spears argues a specific worldview. Posits
only two types of people exist: the ones that entertain

& the ones that observe. Other theorists may disagree.

(Judith Butler et al recognize the performed nature
of gender – so who isn’t performing? – & we trace

poetry’s roots to song, to orality etc. etc. etc.).

Britney’s binary might seem reductive, but her framework
proves useful for us to consider the active/passive
nature of existence: the (in)action of choice. Consequence of being.

She asserts it’s better to dance (entertain) than to stand (observe).

I’m usually against such absolutism in judgment but if pressed yesterday
I would have agreed. Today, though, I’m not so sure.

Originally published in mutiny! as well as my book the nature machine!   ​