Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Las Vegas massacre : suggestive of Poe's " Masque of the Red Death "

Discussion on World Socialist Web Site  

The Las Vegas massacre the day after


"All this horror, after decades of similar and mounting horrors, and not a single profound thought expressed in the American media. " Paddock himself is but an extreme example of the moral , intellectual, and spiritual decay of America upper class.

One is morbidly reminded of Edgar Allan Poe 's " The Masque of the Red Death " ( give that fantastic palace of Prince Prospero a Las Vegas venue ) : " But outside was the Red Death ! "

The " shadow government " of the American plutocracy is capable of fiendish plots. They will -if we let them - take all life on earth down with them . 

" A crisis of civilization " indeed .

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