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Originally Posted by looking glass spectacle
when art spiegelman writes about the holocaust, it doesn't suddenly become a sunny picnic just because the author is jewish. likewise, when burroughs describes the raids on bathhouses and clubs that took place when homosexuality was basically criminalized... and these types of raids really happened, not merely figments of burroughs' admittedly paranoid imagination... the types of raids that eventually led to the uprising at the Stonewall Inn...
... honestly, if you fail to see why this is heavy stuff, i can't help you... |
I don't fail to see how one COULD see it that way but...
Art is not disturbing, reality is.
The candid way Burroughs could describe these taboo things people in general tend to try so hard to ignore strikes me as more exciting than disturbing. I personally find more disturbing and counter productive the way people in general would prefer to shelter themselves from facts. But I am not talking about you or anyone in specific.
Personally, I would find it way more disturbing NOT to read about such things.
Your patronising tone was cute, but unnecesary.