Half way through the book the wall collapses, and having no job, he shoots David Bowie in Berlin after discovering he has underage groupies. The rest of the book is him being put on trial with all the teenagers and real life musicians he beat up testifying against him.

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    • TraumaDumpling
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      how many successful revolutionaries were ravers lmao, my man joe steel never misses

      seriously tho look into CIA funding for the arts back in the day, we propped up mr. soup can painter to prove that capitalists had 'better culture' than the soviets, we propped up 'show don't tell' style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism. even if whatever specific music mentioned isn't a CIA op it would have been a safe bet to assume it was in that historical context lol.

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        we propped up 'show don't tell' style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism.

        Do you really want the alternative of "tell don't show" though, because that's how you get Atlas Shrugged's infamous 60-page John Galt speech

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          its also how you get Dostoevsky afaik

          edit: which as an american i obiously haven't read lol, my bookshelf here is like 80% trashy warhammer 40k novels

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        we propped up 'show don't tell' style writing/analysis to prevent the masses from having detailed and abstract thoughts/criticism

        the point of promoting show don't tell was to prevent people from making direct calls to action. i'd say valuing metaphor and allegory probably makes people more adept at the abstract if they're proficient at reading it

        we took care of people reading & thinking proficiently with school privatization, don't get the two phenomena mixed up

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    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      Stalin was a lot of things one of those things is a man raised in the 1900's who liked to watch western movies