Ixion's wheel slows its spinning and grinds to a halt Sisyphus lets his stone tumble, forgotten, to the bottom of its hill Tantalus forgets his hunger and thirst and lies back in his pool with his eyes closed for just a moment For just those few bars of music, they find peace
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I'm not even that old, but I feel like the end of history, the end of the world, has been happening all my life This massive rattling rickety system keeps on seeming like it's about to collapse under the weight of its contradictions then rallying for another go-round
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The turbines shudder and groan back into motion, all the addicts suddenly remember they need today's hit of their addiction of choice, work calls you back to shift another load of stone onto the next layer of the Wall Cerberus jerks awake and tenses and growls
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The show -- especially the song "Why We Build the Wall" -- but the whole thing really -- so perfectly captures this 21st-century zeitgeist of this system so huge and so awful and so byzantine it simultaneously seems impossible that it hasn't died yet and that it ever could die
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(And, okay, I gotta hand it to them, the big spectacle where the whole set "falls apart" and rapidly converts from the train station set to the Hadestown is money well spent, it makes this point visually very well)
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...Ah. This explains a lot about where people who see it as hopeful/have vastly different interpretations from me of “to know how it ends, but still begin to sing it again as if it might work out this time” are getting that from, I think?
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The BTS stuff says that the show became a lot more "political" not just because of Donald Trump being President, but because in the Broadway staging they actually had the money to pay an ensemble of background actors for the first time
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