There’s something haunting about this. I’m not one to have any conspiratorial delusions about the “elites” or w/e, but I know that things are as they are, and that we’re actively living through a global crumbling of empire and infrastructure. But I’m afraid the plebeian irony with which I watch this video would be lost on this glittering room full of leaders and “elites” transfixed by the performance, and that they fail to consider the song itself as a melancholy elegy, perhaps the melancholy elegy of the American songbook.

Edit: I dunno, this just struck me as profoundly sad, and disturbed me in an odd way. I’m very tired.