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April 2, 2007
I look at the American law and order shows on free-to-air television and I think the end has come. History has ended. Instead of a modernist utopia we have is murder, destruction, violence amidst great wealth and a sense of decay and emptiness in an urban world. The excess of the street is the world of the lower orders. When we glimpse the world of the stylishly presented elite---- the Americans no longer eat their beautifully presented cuisine in the shadow of the Old Masters----we also see power and psychosis.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, rocks + plants, 2007
America as a neo-liberal utopia is deeply wounded or damaged. It's a black, depressive desolate world inside the triumphalism of capitalism, its business culture and the glossy Krispy Kreme consumerism of the market. I recoil from the depression of the schizophrenic nightmare world, and move back to nature to keep my sanity.
It's a retreat, I know, time out as it were, from the belligerent libidinal forces that lay beneath our superficially benevolent liberal world.
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