Half way through the book the wall collapses, and having no job, he shoots David Bowie in Berlin after discovering he has underage groupies. The rest of the book is him being put on trial with all the teenagers and real life musicians he beat up testifying against him.

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    This music, if one can call it such, is created from the sect of ‘shakers’ – dance that induces people to ecstasy, trance and makes them into wild animals ready for any wild action. This type of music is created with the help of psychiatrists so as to influence the brain and psychology of the people. This is one type of musical narcotics under whose influence a person cannot think of fresh ideas and are turned into a herd. It is useless to invite such people for revolution, for building communism.
    - Stalin

    badeline-scream ☁️

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      how many successful revolutionaries were ravers lmao, my man joe steel never misses

      seriously tho look into CIA funding for the arts back in the day, we propped up mr. soup can painter to prove that capitalists had ‘better culture’ than the soviets, we propped up ‘show don’t tell’ style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism. even if whatever specific music mentioned isn’t a CIA op it would have been a safe bet to assume it was in that historical context lol.

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        we propped up ‘show don’t tell’ style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism.

        Do you really want the alternative of “tell don’t show” though, because that’s how you get Atlas Shrugged’s infamous 60-page John Galt speech

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        we propped up ‘show don’t tell’ style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism

        the point of promoting show don’t tell was to prevent people from making direct calls to action. i’d say valuing metaphor and allegory probably makes people more adept at the abstract if they’re proficient at reading it

        we took care of people reading & thinking proficiently with school privatization, don’t get the two phenomena mixed up