ENGA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wrecking Ball, Making Money, Wallace Stevens
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The person is the political: miley cyrus is about an individual breakup but it is saturated with language of war and language of bombing. It"s not a coincide that the song of a personal relationship is related to mass destruction. The miley video is consciously aware of that images of her spread on rubble are parallel to shots from. They do this in a powerful ideology that everything is fine and everything is getting better. Not even close: we"re living lives of quiet desperation in the midst of a world of loud noise and distraction. Waiting for godot to break through the walls and make us realize that the quiet desperation we feel is not unique. Feelings of desperation have been presented as a disease. The word quest is in question: question is the beginning of a quest, but modernity keeps shortening the time between quest and answer that there is not much quest.
