Francesca

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The call and response mirroring, Persephone and Eurydice speaking their needs (times being as they are, hard and getting harder all the time / it isn't right, it ain't natural), that symmetry is JUICY but then Hades and Orpheus! both answering in metaphor, both failing in different-but-same ways. The way Orpheus points to the world as it could be and Hades to the world as it is but NEITHER of them ultimately listen to what their loves need, neither of them can hear what's right in front of them. Orpheus answers Eurydice with hope (but you can't eat hope, she needs pragmatism and stability); Hades answers Persephone with pragmatism and stability when what she needs is hope.

The jeans problem was the favorite lecture one of my philosophy professors in college gave about the history of jeans and how it ties into capitalism/mainstream culture absorbing and monetizing any counterculture it encounters. So prior to the 1950s jeans were mostly an item of work-wear that you wore on the job as a farmer or factory worker or miner because they were cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. If you were off the job you'd wear what we'd call now dress pants or slacks. This changes in the 1950s when youth culture start wearing jeans as regular clothing, again because they're cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. But then jeans get absorbed by the culture and we start getting designer jeans, acid-washed jeans, pre-ripped jeans, and now we got people shelling out hundreds of dollars for "povertycore" aesthetic. And now jeans aren't even cheap, durable, and hard-wearing.