ENGA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wrecking Ball, Venn Diagram, Polytheism
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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 wwii, 9/11, drone attacks, hiroshima, terrorist attacks. They do this in a powerful ideology that everything is fine and everything is getting better. 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 to us. I"m waiting for this to be over because there is nothing but a highway. We go on about happiness, fear depression. But if you maintain your presence, the effect of that is happy. Maintaining your present is a source of happiness.
