Tragic..

I never really thought out any scenario involving mass panic and the Love Parade(especially the original festival in Germany), but tragically, Saturday, they connected. One of the biggest Utopian festivals on the planet fell victim and died to the negative forces its participants strived so hard to rise above. What a terrible (and so unexpected!) way to die, not knowing why the crowd has turned, only that everything got horrible, quickly. While other current events might be bigger or more tragic, this really shakes me up. The Love Parade. The last place on Earth one would expect anyone to die..

I imagine the festival is dead now, too. This celebration of that amazing spirit of the late 80's, the fall of Communism, the technological threshold of The Future, the Potential of the Near Future were all seeded by ecstatic German twentysomethings dancing nonstop to techno music. God love those post WW2 Germans: They're always capable of the most unexpected behavior..

QuakeyQuakey..

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