#i'm trying to upload the isolated clip to an unlisted yt vid but it might get fucked for copyright shit idk WE'LL SEE

[queen-mabs-revenge]

i used to use the industrial revolution part of the 2012 olympics opening ceremony in my talks about romanticism and the conditions in which the romantics were living, and i'm giving a talk today about the metabolic rift in a room where there's an AV hookup so i though, hey maybe i can grab a clip from this...

fucking 20 minutes later and i'm literally bawling my eyes out sobbing with my chest, it's such a guttural encapsulation of the violence of capitalism, the theatrical presentation of the destruction of the intricate and delicate webs of environmental coexistence, the trauma of capitalist and imperialist extraction, oppression and domination.

and it's played as a celebration

fuck me watching it 11 years later, even in its prettified staged representation the horror just leaps out and down your throat

#metabolic rift #forgot this section is 20 minutes long #i might try and figure out a clip of time stamps #but yeah holy fucking shit #i'm trying to upload the isolated clip to an unlisted yt vid but it might get fucked for copyright shit idk WE'LL SEE