The “End of the Day” sequence with the faces of the workers, the poor, the underclass. It’s hard to take anything seriously when people are singing about it to you, although certain scenes had its power. (The all-pervasive fear, a daily check in: How stupid am I? Is my stupidity increasing?)Ĭan the musical do important things? Perhaps it can-if so, I’ve yet to see a musical that felt like there was something there, but this makes no sense because as a general rule I avoid musicals, so I wouldn’t know a good musical if it came and warbled in my ear. That is, whole chunks of Macherey’s text were incomprehensible to me. I read Pierre Macherey’s A Theory of Literary Production and still understand nothing. I don’t know, this novel thing is a big question. Maybe I think the novel can do important things. You might ask the same question of the novel itself, which I haven’t read, but then I’m biased-I majored in literary studies. Where Les Miserables the musical is concerned, I never understood why poverty had to be romanticised, aestheticised, into a feel-good musical. I have stage fright, so I was never on stage but always in the background running around doing important things for the people on stage, but this has nothing to do with anything, really. The English Literary and Debating Society. I had some familiarity with Les Miserables the musical because we put on bits of it for a concert when I was in the English Literary and Debating Society in secondary school. I watched Les Miserables because a friend wanted to see it. I just had the best time looking at this twitter feed throughout the thing: Everything shit will come to pass, said Debord. Most of us love to watch it and talk about it because we’re saturated in it and even though I hate it so much I enjoy watching people watch it: a meta-spectacle. The white culture industry congratulating its white industrially cultural self. As this Tumblr post puts it: “The Brave White Artists of the USA”. One of my friends texted us in a group chat about the Golden Globes awards show and its unbearable celebration of whiteness.
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