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asurrogateblog · 7 months ago

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not to be insensitive but tbh I don’t really feel bad for jim morrison’s death mythologizing him as a martyr to rock because in the last few weeks I have read a significant amount of the fucked up esoteric philosophy that inspired the doors and I am now 100% certain that jim was perfectly self-aware of the consequences of how he cultivated his public image and knew exactly what would happen if his choices led to an untimely end. I’m not saying that’s why he died but I am saying he saw the writing on the wall so I’m not gonna do him the disrespect of pitying him for purposefully embodying the tragic poet

#there ARE ways that he has been disrespectfully distorted #for instance the way that the 1991 movie portrays him as a loud-mouthed violent asshole #(he was really quite soft-spoken and good-mannered most of the time)#BUT the core idea of #‘he was deliberately abusing substances to acesss a mindset of artistic dionysian madness’#is in fact true #it sounds SO wrong but you can read his poetry/lyrics/interviews he states it pretty clearly #even ray who HATES the book that’s done the most mythologizing of jim agrees with that part #in many ways he is the anti-syd #as in ‘all that imaginary shit people believed about him is actually kind of true this time’#jim morrison #the doors

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