Why Small Towns Stay Small
I was thinking and returned to my doubts about a lightning-quick
association that had produced a dazzling intellectual synthesis
spanning seven centuries, which had impressed even me, who does not
suffer fools gladly, yet my doubts were immediately stifled when my
eye fell on the listing for a television show to be broadcast evening
called "Love Monkey" ("Le singe de l'amour"). There it was, the point
at which Dante's hell and America met: love as savage, vertiginous
desire. Man as monkey-consumer, his false consciousness "aping" the
motions of the market; and love itself as monkey, monkey-love the
objectification and reification of the monkey-consumer, who exists
only in the primate gaze of wanton orangutan longing. The buyer and
the bought. The buyer becoming the bought. Imitation--people aping
their commodities and vice versa--at the thingifying heart of
commercialized American life. The monkey-consumer puts his money in
the bank. The bank becomes his "branch." "Monkey" without the "k" is
"money." Where does the "k" go? To Washington D.C., to "K" Street, to
powerful vested interests.
"Love Monkey" is an attempt to re-gender the legendary American series
"Sex and the City" as a show about men and for men. In America, the
words "sex" and "city" are interchangeable. When you tell a
full-figured woman that you want to have sex with her, you are really
saying that you want to "city" her. Sex between a man and a woman
leads to children, to an increase in numbers, to multiple dwellings.
After a while, many multiple dwellings create a city. For this reason,
no one is having sex in American small towns. Instead, they consume
food. Once rural Americans start to have sex, they migrate. This is
why the cities are bursting. They are full of formerly rural people
moving in and having sex constantly in multiple dwellings where they
rarely eat in their tiny, charmless kitchens. Thus if you say that you
live in the "city," you are really saying that you live in "sex." This
is why the legendary series was called "Sex and the City" rather than
"Sex in the City."
I would like to watch "Love Monkey" one day. I think I might enjoy it.
Now, however, I am going to make the bonne a "smoothie." A smoothie.
In this rough country. Imagine. How do Americans bear all this
meaning?
association that had produced a dazzling intellectual synthesis
spanning seven centuries, which had impressed even me, who does not
suffer fools gladly, yet my doubts were immediately stifled when my
eye fell on the listing for a television show to be broadcast evening
called "Love Monkey" ("Le singe de l'amour"). There it was, the point
at which Dante's hell and America met: love as savage, vertiginous
desire. Man as monkey-consumer, his false consciousness "aping" the
motions of the market; and love itself as monkey, monkey-love the
objectification and reification of the monkey-consumer, who exists
only in the primate gaze of wanton orangutan longing. The buyer and
the bought. The buyer becoming the bought. Imitation--people aping
their commodities and vice versa--at the thingifying heart of
commercialized American life. The monkey-consumer puts his money in
the bank. The bank becomes his "branch." "Monkey" without the "k" is
"money." Where does the "k" go? To Washington D.C., to "K" Street, to
powerful vested interests.
"Love Monkey" is an attempt to re-gender the legendary American series
"Sex and the City" as a show about men and for men. In America, the
words "sex" and "city" are interchangeable. When you tell a
full-figured woman that you want to have sex with her, you are really
saying that you want to "city" her. Sex between a man and a woman
leads to children, to an increase in numbers, to multiple dwellings.
After a while, many multiple dwellings create a city. For this reason,
no one is having sex in American small towns. Instead, they consume
food. Once rural Americans start to have sex, they migrate. This is
why the cities are bursting. They are full of formerly rural people
moving in and having sex constantly in multiple dwellings where they
rarely eat in their tiny, charmless kitchens. Thus if you say that you
live in the "city," you are really saying that you live in "sex." This
is why the legendary series was called "Sex and the City" rather than
"Sex in the City."
I would like to watch "Love Monkey" one day. I think I might enjoy it.
Now, however, I am going to make the bonne a "smoothie." A smoothie.
In this rough country. Imagine. How do Americans bear all this
meaning?
posted by The Last Word | 10:11 AM
