Reign in Hell

What would paradise be like? Is it in the ken of humanity? In American Dharma Steve Bannon cites Paradise Lost, “better to rule in hell than serve in heaven.” It’s a wonderful epitaph for MAGA. Trump world is one of those post-apocalyptic Mad Max landscapes, Ukraine, 3 years after, burned out cities abandoned armor, battalions of impassive North Koreans out of Manchurian Candidate. Add rogue Wagner brigade populated with furloughed prisoners and led by a former hot dog vendor named Prighozin--whose plane is not mysteriously exploded. MDMA, Molly aka ecstasy the perfect drug for this party. Remember The Seventh Seal, the knight wandering home from the Inquisition through a landscape of plague and death. How easy to envision heaven, when hell is all you  know?

Listen to "Night Train" by James Brown from James Brown Live at the Apollo (1962)