Was the German Weimar Republic -pre Nazi Era -as decadent as the USA in late 2021 ? EVIL lurks in any bored crowd of young people desperate for toxic, nihilistic excitement. Recall hellish crowd scenes in a Hollywood movie titled " Day of the Locusts " and Stephen's King's horror movie " Carrie ". Perhaps in dreams THE DEAD of the Astroworld Festival in Houston Texas will reach out to " lucky " survivors and to Travis Scott himself.
Excerpt form N. West's " Day of the Locust " : ["Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize that they’ve been tricked and burn with resentment. Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, war. This daily diet made sophisticates of them. The sun is a joke. Oranges can’t titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies. They have been cheated and betrayed. They have slaved and saved for nothing."]
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ReplyDeleteWas the German Weimar Republic -pre Nazi Era -as decadent as the USA in late 2021 ? EVIL lurks in any bored crowd of young people desperate for toxic, nihilistic excitement. Recall hellish crowd scenes in a Hollywood movie titled " Day of the Locusts " and Stephen's King's horror movie " Carrie ". Perhaps in dreams THE DEAD of the Astroworld Festival in Houston Texas will reach out to " lucky " survivors and to Travis Scott himself.
Excerpt form N. West's " Day of the Locust " :
ReplyDelete["Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize that they’ve been tricked and burn with resentment. Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, war. This daily diet made sophisticates of them. The sun is a joke. Oranges can’t titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies. They have been cheated and betrayed. They have slaved and saved for nothing."]