E8: Blowhard, Part 4: Gatsby Virtue Signalling; S10: In the middle, what does the end matter?

Blowhard is a five-part series that is too much to take all at once. So, not only have I broken it up into five parts (the first part is Part Zero), but I am also not posting them in order or near each other. Only if you must will you want to listen to them all in order. [I will release them as an album]For most people this will not be your thing. No offence. And none taken. Move along, or listen and tell me how much you hated it.I don’t have time for this.I don’t have time to make it sound clever or tragic or ironic.It’s all tragic. It’s all ironic. It’s all a mess.The world is a glittering ballroom full of broken glass and hashtags.I’m supposed to tell you what this episode is “about”?It’s about the shit show.It’s about the pleasure that survives inside the shit show.It’s about pretending to be virtuous while the chandeliers fall.It’s about me, you, Gatsby, and the carbon dioxide parts per million.It’s about the apocalypse dressed in tuxedo and pearls.It’s about honesty as performance art.It’s about the brain as refinery, the piss as poetry, the meaning as waste.It’s about everything.It’s about nothing.It’s about listening anyway.Keywords: apocalypse, virtue signalling, climate collapse, pleasure, decay, Art Deco, Gatsby, honesty, irony, podcast, queer voice, philosophy, chaos, survival, adaptation, social media, ruin, empathy, noise, truth, delirium, beauty, exhaustion, humanity, satire, ambient spoken word, existential humor, urban forest, heat island, love, death, pleasure, meaning.