thread of songs you think about while reading a book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAykpic related
>>25251993https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzMTvdOa5ws&list=LL&index=7
>>25251993The Killing Joke song of the same name is the one that comes to mind for me for that one. I always wondered why there's a lot of Bongs who sing about us but we never respond.
>>25251993https://youtu.be/LB9lObWclFQ
Sometime around dusk in a gloomy city at the turn of the century
>>25252263https://youtu.be/_AWIqXzvX-U
>>25252223in the book he is mesmerized by usa and basically is a book of admiration of united states. he criticize way more europe almost pointing that americans are wild and ingenuous and free while europeans are constricted by centuries of history and failure. he says everyone who criticize usa is at the same time fascinated by it, which is true by the time is written. usa was modernity and everybody wants to be part of it and copy it directly from the source. the killing joke song is just a rage against the machine cheap political song. baudrillard is pretty nuanced about usa if not directly creaming his pants in the middle of the death valley. in one of his last interviews he said that america is not anymore what he write in america, and i agree with him. it emerged a kind of sludge conscience more like the european, european trying to be american have the compensation of americans trying to be europeans. there is no more modernity from the wild. trump is just a sympton and a parody of what is lost.
