Part of me is let down that she has proven all us smug liberals wrong and the conservatives right. A bigger part of me is grateful that by making such a spectacle of herself she is showing me right from wrong. She’s not just telling on herself, she’s telling on our culture — and that is useful information.
But goddamn, from the children she took from Mawali to that video of her dry humping kids barely out of their teens to how she made her once-beautiful face hideous, it’s very hard to watch. I’m not saying that such a dark turn in culture has never happened before. But it has never happened in my lifetime.
You cannot hold onto youth when it goes. You must let it pass. Endless plastic surgery and the purchasing — sorry, adopting — of additional children will not keep you in your dewey female prime. If anything, it does the opposite. It turns you into a ravenous monster. A vampire.
Madonna is not just a faded pop star. She is large part of a complex economy whose currency is a mix of lust, lies, fakery and cold hard cash. Millions of people have grown up swayed in one way or another by her extremely valuable image, sold for huge sums of money in that economy.
Now, she’s playing an even more important role: she’s a warning to us all. The awfulness of her persona is showing us how rotten the top layer of our cultural elites have become. So we may proceed accordingly.
Since I’ve burned your eyeballs with the horror of contemporary Madonna, here’s the antidote — the absolute polar opposite.
Enjoy the weekend, y’all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tTSRmY2gQ8