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Écraser l’autre — pour le plaisir et pour le profit

Dominique Bassal

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Works in this cycle

Saint-Barthélémy, le party

There’s so much you can pull off when you completely control the media, which at the time meant the priests in the pulpit! Just give them the order to kindle the dormant sadism found in the miserly masses. This was ground-breaking work, and it has been reproduced near identically several times since, and up until very recently. A juicy detail: the victims’ clan at the party, devotees of a particularly hysterical take on Christianism, later exported their own point of view on all continents, where their missionary work convinced communities to convert, usually after a series of bloody depredations.

Dominique Bassal [English translation: François Couture, iv-24]


Saint-Barthélémy, le party [The Party on Saint Bartholomew’s Day] was realized from 2018 to 2021 at the composer’s studio in Montréal (Québec).

Pogroms énergisants

Spectacular bloody orgies of a quasi-Wagnerian form. The first ones took place at night, by torch light. The KKK produced a “New World” adaptation of the concept, but the African version exceeded all expectations with its resounding success in Rwanda. A highly streamlined take on it, in fact, that moved profit to the back burner, for once, to focus almost exclusively on pleasure.

Dominique Bassal [English translation: François Couture, iv-24]


Pogroms énergisants [Energizing Pogroms] was realized from 2018 to 2021 at the composer’s studio in Montréal (Québec).

Bon matin, Adolf

Here’s a fine demonstration of elected psychopaths’ complete incompetence, their power too, and the passive stupidity of the majority: to arm highly unstable Nazis in the hope of using them to strike down communism, see them fail, then slaughter them in a single, long, uninterrupted nightmare. And then we drew inspiration from this stellar failure to do the exact same thing with other crazy people, in various places, especially in countries we didn’t like.

Dominique Bassal [English translation: François Couture, iv-24]


Bon matin, Adolf [Good Morning, Adolf] was realized from 2018 to 2021 at the composer’s studio in Montréal (Québec).

Deir Yassin mon amour

Shortly after the defeat of their European persecutors, these victims began to slaughter a people that, one, had absolutely nothing to do with their past tribulations, and, two, was militarily incapable. A proud tradition that still lives on 75 years later. “Because I can?” Fun fact: The commander of the butchers of Deir Yassin would go on to become prime minister of the slaughterers’ country.

Dominique Bassal [English translation: François Couture, iv-24]


Deir Yassin mon amour was realized from 2018 to 2021 at the composer’s studio in Montréal (Québec).

Sénateur Joe Pet-pet

And now for something more playful, burlesque even, since the instigator of these persecutions lacked credibility. That being said, neutralizing him did take a few years, and his influence is still resonating among vast judgment-impaired communities.

Dominique Bassal [English translation: François Couture, iv-24]


Sénateur Joe Pet-pet was realized from 2018 to 2021 at the composer’s studio in Montréal (Québec).

L’informaticien à la seringue

This one — he was said to be brilliant, but it was just his mama pushing him to the fore — adopted a unique style: a particularly backhanded blend of entrepreneurship and philanthropy. Unimaginatively, his actions, intentionally confusing and cowardly, are framed by the nebulous chaos “theory.” To be more specific, we are in the presence of the cool iteration of the good old “divide et impera” so dear to the founders of the Great Criminal Civilization. It still has plenty of sunny days ahead, no surprise there, thanks to us.

Dominique Bassal [English translation: François Couture, iv-24]


L’informaticien à la seringue [The Computer Specialist With A Syringe] was realized from 2018 to 2021 at the composer’s studio in Montréal (Québec).