"Only in Bible lore, each of those plagues is actually the desecration of a false God. Blood desecrates Hapi the god of the Nile; death of the cattle desecrates the calf-headed god Hathor; locusts desecrate the sky god Seth, and so on. What plagues will desecrate our false gods? Will they crash modern idols like the Dow Jones? Money? The nation states?"
There's a shot of di Modica's statue 'Charging Bull,' and the Occupy protests in this two-hour documentary, which led then to the Tea Party and the rise of Trump.
"Only in Bible lore, each of those plagues is actually the desecration of a false God. Blood desecrates Hapi the god of the Nile; death of the cattle desecrates the calf-headed god Hathor; locusts desecrate the sky god Seth, and so on. What plagues will desecrate our false gods? Will they crash modern idols like the Dow Jones? Money? The nation states?"
https://rushkoff.substack.com/p/uniting-in-universal-weirdness
“The world of ghosts and spirits is as real as that of markets,” the anthropologist Ganath Obeyeskere wrote.
https://www.noemamag.com/the-transformational-power-of-communal-dreaming/
Would have been a good epigraph for this story.
There's a shot of di Modica's statue 'Charging Bull,' and the Occupy protests in this two-hour documentary, which led then to the Tea Party and the rise of Trump.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/age-of-easy-money/
This doc focuses on the Beats and their lasting influence on rabble-rousers in NYC.
https://events.greensborobound.com/item/11056-The-Renegade-Legacy-of-Bleecker-and-MacDougal
A recent post from the author of my favorite book on interactive fiction.
https://substack.com/notes/post/p-121384882