Credits Song for our Death

The history behind the sigil with the heart and sword goes back to the first Caribbean country that freed itself from enslavement: Haiti.

Ezruli Dantor, the female spirit behind revolution and all who have been wronged.

She is known as the “Avenging One,” known to manifest when the oppressed are pushed past endurance.

January 1st marks 222 years since then, and currently it is hell on earth in Haiti. It has been that way since they were liberated.

After their freedom, no country wanted to help Haiti for fear of inspiring other slave rebellions.

For a while, Haiti was left to fend for itself until America stepped in, but that also came with consequences.

since America had no intention of making the country truly independent and successful.

The country now is in ruins, truly in need of a messiah or, more realistically, support that will give aid to the people who inspired revolution across the world for minorities who were once enslaved.

We are all aware that the world is literally on the brink of catastrophic change, and the change doesn’t just feel dramatic.

It feels like exhaustion, distraction, and pretending everything is fine.

We feel this inevitable, undeniable descent pushed on us by social media and the news.

Yet because of our individual lives and the massive amount of information we have access to, we can build our own worlds and get lost in them.

We can connect and disconnect from the world.

As long as our personal world remains somewhat intact (let’s face it, we have problems of our own), we can ignore the cracks in the larger world that allow us this freedom.

Is it wrong to ignore a world crumbling when you are born with the ability to look away?

What can we possibly do against systems that have control over the fates of the lucky and the unlucky?

Is this feeling of dread, burnout, depression, and loneliness our consequence for our nihilistic but realistic view?

What happened to Haiti is something we all fear: liberation without permission.

That comes at the cost of no support for survival.

Haiti's isolation, debt, and destabilization became the first modern example of what happens when a collective uprising is allowed to win, but not allowed to live. We are all being oppressed right now, but examples have been made, and fear has been instilled.

Ezruli does not side with fear, and currently, we are all fearful.

Modern survival is not compatible with being fully human.

We are oppressed, and the spirit that fights it is no longer on our side.

What was once vengeance against a clear enemy now disperses inward and sideways, turning into burnout, resentment, competition, and isolation.

Her nature hasn’t changed. The world has. And when a spirit born to avenge collective suffering can no longer strike a single source, her chaos reflects back onto everyone.

What happens when a spirit born to protect the oppressed no longer chooses sides, but instead mirrors discourse back onto everyone?

When pressure doesn’t unite us, but turns us against each other. When survival becomes competitive instead of collective.

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