Musk(y)

Take the Musk Out of Muskie and What Do You Get? 

Is our current period comparable to Rome after Augustus, Greece after the Trojan war or has frequently been said Germany before the rise of Hitler. Certainly a large class of unemployed unskilled workers and veterans, the lumpen proletariat, fueled the beer hall Putsch which was tantamount to January 6. Is Elon musk Goebbels with his propaganda machine and freaky Mother in the background a la Norman Bates? Interestingly Germany before Hitler was a supernova sending out the bright explosion of the dying star. Berlin Alexanderplatz, the Alfred Doblin novel, later adapted by Fassbinder, Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities, Ernst Broch's The Sleepwalkers along with the novels of Stefan Zwieg and Joseph Roth and essays of Walter Benjamin were all part of the cultural renaissance that eventually fueled the wrong kinds of fires. Christipher Isherwood's Berlin Stories became Cabaret, but is life ever really a cabaret, my friend? You may not find sleepwalkers but many people walking in their sleep not realizing there is someone bragging about being able to shoot people and get away with it. BTW, where will all the democrat donors and January 6 investigators be imprisoned? Will Alcatraz be brought back into service? Joseph McCarthy tried to court martial the army but maybe the writers of Project 2025 will have better luck?

read "Frankel" by Francis Levy, Vol.1 Brooklyn