The Gotthard Base Tunnel is the longest railway tunnel in the world, and had an official inauguration ceremony on June 1st 2016. Attending were prominent people in politics and business, including heads of state of Germany, Italy and France. In all likelihood they just blessed the tunnel, cut a tape, had a few speeches and maybe later shared a nice meal, one might have thought. But no, they went to a little more trouble than that for the opening of this tunnel because I suppose it is a very big tunnel. How much more trouble? A good bit more. To the point of staging perhaps the most bizarre and sinister public spectacle witnessed in the modern world - again presumably because, as I said, it is a very big tunnel.
It must presumably have been felt this spectacle would be an appropriate one for members of the social-political elites in attendance, such as the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel to enjoy. Utterly screwed up, dystopian, nightmarish, orgiastic, dripping in a darkest sense of the occult ... perhaps these are the kinds of things that really tick their boxes. One might also reasonably wonder for those whose tastes were reflected by such a performance put on in full public glare, what the hell do they get up to in private.
And to add, the most appropriate response I think to anyone who would seek to explain away all this is “You’re an idiot.”
The second video below gives a more comprehensive view of the performance, and is also very good at giving an overview of the ceremony as a storyline, though a little after 13 or so minutes when he moves onto attempting to rationalise or comprehend the essence of it all, I wasn’t exactly enthralled and moved on.
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