My worry about the Trojan horse argument is always, who is subverting who?
Have smart insights been snuck through to the unsuspecting public, or have smart insights been deadened by the vehicle? Yeah, but I don’t think it’s a question of who’s subverting who. Both sides are being subverted mutually. And there’s a third thing created which is a non-authorial synthesis that happens at the level of language or culture, which is in a way more interesting than either the authorial intention or the social recuperation mechanism. It’s like when two ant colonies have a war, and each has their own architectural aesthetic, and when one of the ant colonies wins the war, the architectural aesthetic of the new ant colony becomes a melding of the two different aesthetics. So both sides lose in a sense, or both sides win, depending on how you look at it. You give a monologue at the end of I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore wherein you offhandedly mention that your next project is going to be about your sex addiction. That was in 1992. What’s it like to live with something so lo
