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These days you know someone has become culturally irrelevant when they are celebrated by a mainstream program or major museum. Laurie Anderson was my idol growing up. Now she is a government sanctioned cultural puppet sponsored by the corporate media. How can anyone worth their intellectual and ethical salt appear on a captured show/network like 60 Minutes in 2022, or talk to a worthless regime-worshiping lying shill like Anderson Cooper? If you want the answer, you can watch this interview. Anderson doesn’t manage to say a single critical, thought-provoking, or dissenting thing about our current times. She is completely neutered. It reminds of me of when a friend told me about being at a celebrity friend’s wedding last spring and how on the private bus back to NYC, the once-great film director Jim Jarmusch was the most COVID-paranoid, endlessly donning his mask, which he also simultaneously arbitrarily took off during the crowded wedding service and after-party.
During the 60 Minutes interview, Cooper quotes (and sings! The nerve) Anderson’s 1981 song Oh Superman to her. “You say when love is gone, there is always justice.” Neither of them see the irony of this statement, nor their betrayal of it. The vanity of these old artists post-COVID is mind-boggling to me. They should know better. Yet all they talk about is their work in isolation, like it’s all that matters. Like they’re all that matters. Still. Anderson tells Cooper, “I just like beautiful things” when explaining the reason behind her work. Well, we all do, but life—and the future—right now is unfortunately about more than just one’s personal pursuit of tantalizing objects, interests, and drives. It’s fighting for that justice when love is gone.
The great artists and thinkers have turned into the great cowards. Or were they always?
