Sunday, 8 December 2019

The Harsh Demands


         We have lost our innocence, our individualism, and our strict small-town morals to mechanization and industry, to the harsh demands of capital, to overcrowded yet lonely cities, to unrestrained lust, to a mobility that makes us strangers and transients.

Gordon Theisen
Staying Up Much Too Late -
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the Dark
Side of the American Psyche
2006

   https://indyweek.com/culture/art/carrboro-s-gordon-theisen-discusses-power-pessimism/

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