On the 7th of january in 1919, the "Semana Trágica" began in Argentina when police attacked striking metalworkers in Buenos Aires, killing five, after workers set the police chief's car on fire. The city was quickly placed under martial law.
The "Semana Trágica" (Tragic Week in English, not to be confused with the Spanish Tragic Week) was the violent supression of a general workers' uprising, beginning with the attack on January 7th. In addition to the actions of the police and military, right-wing vigilantes launched pogroms against the city's Jews, many of whom were not involved, in order to suppress the rebellion.
The conflict began as a strike at the Vasena metal works, an English Argentine-owned plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. On January 7th, workers overturned and set fire to the car of the police chief Elpidio González. Militant workers also shot and killed the commander of the Army detachment protecting González. Following this, police attacked, killing five workers and wounding twenty more.
On the same day, maritime workers of the port of Buenos Aires voted in favor of a general strike for better hours and wages. After the police attack at Vasena, a waterfront strike began: all ship movements, and all loading and unloading, came to a halt.
Rioting soon spread throughout Buenos Aires, and workers battled with both state and right-wing paramilitary forces. Police utilized members of the far-right Argentine "Patriotic League", who targeted the city's working class Russian Jewish population, which they associated with the rebellion, beating and murdering many uninvolved civilians.
On the 11th, the city was placed under martial law, and the military restored control over the city over the next several days. Estimates of the death toll range from between 141 to over 700. The United States embassy reported that 1,500 people were killed in total, "mostly Russians and generally Jews"
La Semana Trágica - el historiador
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Ever seen the Adult Swim show The Shivering Truth? I only watched two episodes but I found it insufferable, tried way too hard to be "deep" but I found it very shallow. It was made by the same studio that did Xavier Renegade Angel and Wonder Showzen which I like so it was even more disappointing to not like The Shivering Truth.
Xavier was more wordplay and comedy than genuine philosophical shit.
Shivering Truth seems to lean hard into surrealist bits but they never really become comedic. For all Xavier's nonsense, it did have overarching plots with a million jokes a minute to connect all the nonsense. Shivering Truth just has the nonsense. It does have some interesting questions and scenarios but never seems to have anything to say about them.
The "what if prayer worked" bit is a good example. It poses an interesting question with an interesting scenario but it doesn't have anything to say beyond its surreal premise.
You went into it with the wrong mindset. It isnt deep. Its post-metamodern where at any given moment you are not sure if it is being inspired or blowing smoke up your ass.
Metamodern art is a swinging pendulum between the sincerity of modernism and the irony of postmodernism. Post-metamoderism is a 3 dimensional pendulum where at any moment the observer can experience something "true" while from another perspective it is totally sarcastic.
The "mind fudged" episode of wondershowsen was just starting to creep into this territory and I think it as the best part of the show.