The Age of Greed

Humanity is blinded by an Ecstasy of Gold (1), willfully ignoring the destructive Panic Attack (2) that the earth is facing. Tybalt’s Death (3) is a good example of this ignorance. He is fearless but it’s a dumb fearlessness, not the heroic kind, but the one that leads to certain death. The hunt for gold will remain, but nature suffers badly from this greed. Is there no respect for the beauty of the earth? No sense of Primal Light (4)? Humans are turning the earth into an Unsustainable (5) state for themselves. We keep fooling around. Vivaldi dedicated la Folia (6) to human madness, but humans think they’re not that crazy, and they suffer from their own assumed Supremacy (7). Nature will eventually restore itself, but humans of this age, exhausting its resources, will lead to their own disembodiment. Soon humanity may just be a Spectre (8) flying around in the galaxy, pathetically looking for gold or fertile ground on another barren planet. Like Wotan (9), humanity will regret that its own curse of the golden ring is irreversible. There may even be no time for Funeral Rites (10). Mahler said: “what has come into being must perish, what has perished has to resurrect”— however, Nobody (11) knows how that works.

The End (12)

Music by Morricone, Dream Theater, Prokofiev, Mahler, Muse, Vivaldi, Radiohead, Wagner, Avenged Sevenfold and The Doors