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t is dead. By now, no artist lives here anymore. Everything is too expensive. The people of this city don’t know how to live. They are content to spend time to buy stuff and to work to pay for it in installments. By now I’m old. I’m dying. If I were twenty years younger, I think it would leave. I never go out. . This city, America, loves the successful sociopath and thinks it’s normal to dream of becoming like him. New York has become a city of repressed emotions. And this is a real tragedy. In general, what has today’s culture become? Naked women that sway their hips on TV and in the newspapers. All the theaters have disappeared, the places where artists and intellectuals could meet. Today everything has disappeared. When I first came here, this apartment cost only about one hundred dollars a month, which was very easy to make. You only had to go to the park down here and give someone a blowjob. Now nothing is happening and nothing will ever happen again. Money has taken away everything. Internet is sweeping everything away. The television is horrible. I think it should not exist. The technology leads to pathological addictions very quickly. Especially the screens. Almost worse than the desire to become rich and famous. I was writing articles because they paid me. he used his own body and his own intelligence to climb up to the highest social classes, so something is broken inside. As Gore Vidal once said, to see the face of a killer, just look in any mirror. In this city, either you’re rich, or it’s a trap.