Tori Amos was interviewed for a literary festival this week because she published a politically themed memoir called “Resistance” this year.
I wouldn’t have thought to post this except I just saw a thread about Mitch McConnell in which someone said he wants us all to die, and it recalled in a way some of what Tori says in this interview. She’s very insightful and I can’t really paraphrase this long discussion in a way that doesn’t sound a little trite, but what stood out to me most is when she discusses how the United States has been converting for years into a social system in which the majority have been reduced to a serfdom class and are regarded as existing only for the use and disposal by the small ruling class of oligarchs. She says that this has been going on for many years and that American people just have not acknowledged it by and large because it’s too ugly a reality, and too out of keeping with what we were taught we are. She talks about meeting people in Russia and Ukraine on tour who say they know all the information they get from official sources is lies, constant lies, and they insulate themselves from it and preserve their sanity with “an armor of art.” On two different albums, she sings about how “we must out-create” destructive forces rather than being destroyed by them or assimilating to them.
Anyway, you might enjoy this discussion unless you’re one of the DL’s resident Russian trolls.