In 1992, Leonard Cohen released a highly regarded album called The Future. On one of the songs, titled “The Future,” Cohen ponders myriad dark shit that will greet us one day when the future arrives.
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'
If the song was longer it would delve into plenty more. This is one of those things:
In the future… people will be so cynical about white women disappearing that when a non-minority woman goes missing, people will just openly mock the abduction and be annoyed that the news bothers the rest of us to report it.
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