tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869202163671423196.post5805686938407598361..comments2023-11-27T22:34:24.079-08:00Comments on SHOCK AND AWE: dreamhome heartachesSIMON REYNOLDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869202163671423196.post-55332425505567138832019-08-27T09:12:56.865-07:002019-08-27T09:12:56.865-07:00ha ha, love it.
i don't know that story. i ha...ha ha, love it.<br /><br />i don't know that story. i have a giant volume of all his short stories but never got that far into it.SIMON REYNOLDShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869202163671423196.post-31111678495046235972019-08-27T08:09:42.723-07:002019-08-27T08:09:42.723-07:00Given the youth unemployment rate in Italy, which ...Given the youth unemployment rate in Italy, which has now surpassed Spain's, I think the commercial would connect most directly with Ballard's 1978 short story "Having A Wonderful Time", in which a British couple on vacation in the Canary Islands slowly realizes they've been stranded there by the government, along with thousands of others, as part of a plan to deal with surplus labor. This video is perhaps a vision of a future in which all of Italy is turned into a giant summer camp for the unemployed, its borders closed, its coastlines patrolled by gunboats, feral youth dancing on the beaches...a Gucci-fied update of "Escape From New York", maybe?Nick Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09833963600254566187noreply@blogger.com