Cosmopolis

Oh cosmopolis, what a bore,really! In terms of content and storyline anyway. But so much more parallel to real life than many other stories. Cosmopolis certainly shows us a very straightforward depiction of privilege and the privileged and how truly unprivileged they are at certain other aspects of life that, personally, I deem far more important than money and power. 

Eric Parker, like the privileged of our world, live in an absolute alternate reality from the rest of society. With their coveted money, come actually very few assets. 

The only thing this guy has is money, sex, and luxurious objects. Other than that. He’s literally a zombie. Has barely any sense of emotion other than power or arousal, has no idea how to communicate with a person in a reasonable way, has no sense of how to emotionally connect with someone neither verbally, nor physically. 
And in reality, throughout the whole duration of his car ride, he’s got visits and stops with plenty of people and had an inability to actually relate to any of them. 

In our world today, privilege seems to work the same way, in terms of its disconnect from the general public. Except that while reading the novel you’d think Eric Parker is  pretty much disgusting, lacking in humanity, while in real life many think any big name star, the Kardashian’s or some other celebrities who are famous for absolutely no reason, are “awesome role models” and everyone aspires to their “greatness”. 


The big disconnect that comes with privilege from wealth, is really deterring to a persons humanity. Inability to feel connected to other humans has to be detrimental to their brains. The human species isn’t one meant to thrive alone or in isolation. Matter of fact we rely on each other to survive. The farther we get from each other the less likely we will survive. 

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