The neon signs which hang over our cities and outshine the natural light of the night with their own are comets presaging the natural disaster of society, its frozen death. Yet they do not come from the sky. They are controlled from the earth. It depends upon human beings themselves whether they will extinguish these lights and awake from a nightmare which only threatens to become actual as long as men believe in it.

– Theodor Adorno, “The Schema of Mass Culture” (1942)

T-Rex in the garden of Eden? Adam and Eve would be running all the time, scared shitless, but the Bible says it was paradise.

– Christopher Moltisanti, The Sopranos, “The Fleshy Part of the Thigh” (2006)

Outro: Memphis Minnie and Kansas City Joe – “When the Levee Breaks”