Currently in America 7
By Steve
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Jim Morrison wanted to systematically derange the senses of America. He could not stand the light, pop culture of America which was in some ways a "moderation" of black blues, gospel, and jazz and other types of music. IT required that everyone smile, be seemingly happy, and be white. Extremes were considered to be dangerous. But this view of reality, this rococo lightness, this frivolousness, and coca-cola happiness... it's very unreal and carbonated. In one sense, it is an extreme culture of superficiality. Also, the senses are coded with stereotypes by the Apollonian power structure so that it is extremely difficult to change. If you drop your stereotypes, you face the unknown and it is assumed that the unknown is an extreme. The unknown is infinite. There is tons of information we do not know.
"Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name?" His lyrics here have a predetermined sense of love. Jim Morrison loves someone he doesn't even know. But can you really love someone you know fully? Does Juliet really love Romeo at the end of Romeo and Juliet after all the mistakes he has made, after all the modes of miscommunication, after trusting people too much, after being unable to stop the murder of Mercutio? Or is Jim referring to reincarnation of a soul he has met in another life? Or is he presuming that women love nature, love Dionysius, no matter how they deny it?
"Hello, I love you, let me jump in your game?" Women play games to test men. Certainly Penelope in the Odyssey creates a vast web of a game and only Odysseus survives. Jim wants to jump in the game in which there are many players. "Jumping in a game" suggests that Jim is careless, reckless or bold. Jim is asking questions which may reveal to him what kind of women he is confronted with.
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