![]() ![]() It's this alternate universe they can escape into from the dreariness and the mundanity of everyday life. But four or five days of the year, being a Juggalo makes them the king of the world and everybody loves them and Insane Clown Posse is the most popular group in the world. On the significance of annual Insane Clown Posse gatheringsįor 360 days, being a Juggalo makes them an outcast and makes them reviled and makes them a pariah. At the heart of it is basically this fundamental Judeo-Christian mythology to live a good life and you go to heaven - which they call Shangri-La - be a bad person, exploit other people, rip off the poor, you go to hell's pit." "A lot of the Insane Clown Posse's imagery is very dark, is very disturbing and very violent, but the overall message of it is to lead a good life and to be good to your fellow person and to love thy fellow Juggalo. On the macabre aesthetic of Insane Clown Posse I that I think is really really appealing and not just to kids and weirdos and outcasts the world over, but to me while was writing this book." if you grow up a latchkey kid and come from a broken family and don't have anything, you can't really relate to the Jay-Zs of the world but Insane Clown Posse, they kind of make it seem cool to be poor and reviled and one of the scrubs of life. "There's also this kind of deification and romantization of poverty and a specific kind of poverty that I think is both really fun and refreshing, and also, I think, very liberating for poor kids who tend to be Insane Clown Posse's core demographic. On Insane Clown Posse's elevation of poverty And it's both reductive and insulting and doing violence to the human spirit to look at that and just judge it and not just feel that sense of joy that permeates Phish shows." And I would look at people dancing at Phish shows and just feel like these are people who are overcome with joy and feel the need to express it. "But the second year that I followed Phish, when I kind of let all that irony go, when I let all that critical distance go, I just found it to be unbelievably joyous. ![]()
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