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.
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.
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
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
Yeah but it’s also how you get Brecht, and Brecht is worth it imo…
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
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1gJXGHvMwyc