MIKE DAVIS

Sorry Your World Domination is Over © Erika Rothenberg, 2008
From the “Greeting Card” series. Courtesy of the artist.

Who could have envisioned Occupy Wall Street and its sudden wildflower-like profusion in cities large and small?

John Carpenter could have, and did. Almost a quarter of a century ago (1988), the master of date-night terror (Halloween, The Thing), wrote and directed They Live, depicting the Age of Reagan as a catastrophic alien invasion. In one of the film’s brilliant early scenes, a huge third-world shantytown is reflected across the Hollywood Freeway in the sinister mirror-glass of Bunker Hill’s corporate skyscrapers.

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19th Jan with 3 notes

maxddiaz:

 If you have internet access you probably arent squatting and riding trains.