The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/metropolis)
The Wild Hunt covers the display of a statue depicting Moloch, a deity connected to ancient Carthage who is considered Satanic by some Catholic Christians, outside of the Colosseum in Rome.
[Important Note: For today’s Saturday column, we have decided to share editor Heather Greene’s analytical essay of the new Star Wars movie. Greene has both a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Film Studies, and has been writing about film for over twenty years. The following article contains spoilers. If you have not seen the movie, do not continue reading. You have been warned. ]
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. – Albert Camus
Nostalgia is a very powerful force.
I. I was looking for my cat, but I met him instead, there on that blasted hill in the Otherworld. I wake into the city, the city which stretches from borough to borough, neighborhood to neighborhood, downtown to downtown across the earth. I wake into a city that does not know my gods, the Singers in the Dark. I am a foreigner, though I’m ‘from here.’