This, your life, is some kind of Las Vegas. Colorful, miserable, full of surprises, misfortune and luck, a Vegas where you can play. Of course, you have to pay also.
The most valuable aspect of being afraid is that when a person is fearful, they become uncritical and easily manageable. We must be easily manageable because otherwise we begin to notice injustices and revolutions arise.
Everyday we inch towards glorious Marxism of ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’, where the less ability you have the greater your needs are and the more they have to be met at any all cost to society.
Mainstream Culture is a reflection of public hypocrisy. It has always resembled one of those bloated, drawn out weddings, where everyone knows that the groom is fucking the mother-in-law in the bathroom.
This labyrinthine nature of loyalty was superbly explored by Jim Jarmusch – America’s most original and interesting film director – 24 years ago, in 1999’s phenomenal Ghost Dog.