this doesn’t do it justice!!! look at this beast! i went to see it a year ago and its a phenomenal experience, 10/10!!
it lights up and everything, all the different parts are making noises - like there’s classical music AND rock music layering over each other, old talk shows and just radio static! god i love babel so much!
and what’s even better is that the higher up you go, the more modern the machines get - like it’s old radios at the bottom and iphones/ipods at the top and they ALL still make noise like can you IMAGINE
anyway yeah if you get a chance to see it definitely go see it!
what if you slept all day and woke at night, lonely and frustrated. what if you couldn’t go to social events, or even mundane public spaces like stores. what if you couldn’t see the sun. what if you couldn’t go to the pool, or the beach, or the creek. what if you couldn’t eat what everyone else is eating. what if you couldn’t eat at all. what if your basic needs came at the cost of your loved ones’ quality of life. what if you became agitated, confused, maybe even violent if your needs weren’t met. what if people blamed your behavior on demons, or worse, your own inherent evil. what if people saw you as a threat to your own community. what if the default response to your suffering was either indifference or violence. what if people thought you were better off dead, that you no longer count as human, that they’re doing you a favor by letting you disappear. what if people assumed you must somehow deserve all of this. what about that.
