On Stolen Land, Everything Is Optional
The seductive charm of Billie Eilish’s Grammy speech.
Billie Eilish was cheered at the Grammys when she declared no one is illegal on stolen land.
It was a bold, thought-provoking. Until you thought about it for ten seconds and suddenly realised its utterly catastrophic consequences.
Because if no one is illegal on stolen land, we have to face the staggering implications.
Laws? Optional.
Morality? Negotiable.
Gravity? Merely a suggestion.
Imagine the existential havoc: speeding tickets? Null and void.
Tax returns? Invalid.
On stolen land, apparently, you’re free to live in blissful chaos.
The Slippery Slope to Absurdity
And let’s not stop there.
If no one is illegal on stolen land, then logically no one is anything.
No one is gay on stolen land. No one is rich, poor, married, single, or subject to the laws of thermodynamics.
You could punch a stranger in the face and then apologise to a tree, and the law would shrug and say, “Fair enough. It’s stolen land.”
The consequences ripple further…
Teachers? Useless.
Traffic lights? Decorative.
Contracts? Scribbles in the sand.
Even gravity could be optional. Step off a cliff? Sure, why not? You’re on stolen land.
The air itself might reconsider whether to keep you afloat. Physics, after all, is a social construct in this brave new worldview.
One can almost hear the logical extremists cheering: “Why stop at no one being illegal? If land is stolen, then pizza calories are stolen too, and therefore — eat the entire pie!”
Why not?
If Nothing Is Illegal, Is Anything Real?
On stolen land, common sense has been forcibly evicted.
Every law of nature, every social convention, every unwritten rule of human decency must now check in at the border of absurdity and beg permission to exist.
Of course, the only sane response to this philosophy is laughter.
Yet Billie Eilish didn’t stop at law.
She touched the spiritual, the poetic, the moral. And perhaps that’s the cruel genius of it.
If everything we cling to — laws, ethics, physics — is optional, then every act of rebellion becomes a triumph of freedom, every mundane task a tragic joke.
Nothing means anything.
Everything is allowed.
You could live in a castle made of jellybeans while arguing philosophy with a pigeon, and it would all be perfectly valid.
Welcome to the Logic-Free Utopia
And so we arrive at the modern epiphany…
On stolen land, nothing is illegal, nothing is sacred, and perhaps nothing is true.
Except, of course, the certainty of confusion.
In the end, Billie Eilish may have given us the ultimate postmodern anthem: a world unbound by rules, morals, or gravity.
A world where everything and nothing, simultaneously, is possible.
Welcome to stolen land. Bring your own laws.
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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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Brilliant James! Laughter is the best medicine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If we all brought more laws with us – the result would be law -less- ness.
I don’t get it. How is noone or nothing illegal if it’s stolen land? I don’t understand. And how does that mean logic and the laws of physics and truth itself go out the window?
But I am reminded of a line in the bible, from the book of Daniel somewhere, “truth was thrown to the ground”, prophesying of the end times I believe. And I see that happening in the trans stuff, not to mention the idea of truth being relative. Truth is more and more becoming “our opinion, one that is not acceptable” (or worse, a sin that must be punished by fines or jail time).
Here’s my theory. Everyone goes on about tolerance, inclusivity and love, and you can’t be intolerant, exclusive or hateful. So you have the virtues, and the sins. If you commit the sins, you are penalised or punished, or you might just go free if you shut up.
So it’s a sort of cult, with their dogma, and everyone has to play the game or face the consequences. And it’s taking over the western world at the least.
Is this the one world religion they talk about, forming right before our eyes, and yet done in such a way that we dom’t recognise it as a religion? And it seems the world religious leaders are all too happy to come under it (and it is taking over christendom, and whatever next).
We will have to wait and see what happens from here.
Ms E may not live in a castle of jellybeans, but she speaks as if her head is full of them.