EXCERPT: CULT GAIA. FALL 2022

 

"If there is a period in time that we are currently rhyming with, in using the great American writer Mark Twain's quote that "no occurrence is sole and solitary, but is merely a repetition of a thing which has happened before, and perhaps often", it would be the late 1970's and early 1980's.  Of its similarity of political, global and economic turmoil.  Yes, a pandemic did set this off, but we may all have been moving in that direction regardless, as our finite resources under climate climate are beginning to bite.  Very much like the 1970's oil crisis and stagflation, in which the mid 1980's had that terrible scourge of the AIDS virus, three decades later it may have seemed that humanity's hope in technological advancements and globalized stability would guide us, could be said was all but an illusion.

Fashion in the last decade has been flirting with that said period of the 1970's hedonism and 1980's excesses, by inserting the Studio 54 days of cocaine parties, disco and one night stands.  Yet, we have all become so much more conservative in the 21st Centaury, despite recopying the elements of the risque and recklessness as a prepacked simulacrum relayed through our social media channels..."

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Full review:  https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/09/cult-gaia-fall-2022.html 

Resort 2023 review soon.

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(A.Glass 2022)