Nowhere GirlI don't agree with it but I occasionally find myself thinking about 'Twin Peaks: The Return" and David Lynch's suggestion that the sheer hubris and violence of the Trinity Test and the creation of the atomic bomb is where our reality took a swerve into a morally empty hell world where bad things increasingly just happen for no reason.
I don't agree with it because Lynch was operating from a nostalgia for his childhood, for an America that never existed and then only for the benefit of straight white people. But also because there's no one moment where history "turned evil." History is full of atrocities, some of them extremely American.
But there's a poetry to the idea reality is getting shittier as it falls apart around us, if only because it's true and manmade. Capitalism and climate change are steadily erasing beauty from the world and our lives are increasingly steeped in misery and hate without any sign of relief. There don't seem to be any good guys anymore. Maybe there never were. Only the dream. We're all waiting for a ghost to save us before we become ghosts ourselves.
Blue Emu
David Forsyth
Korinne