I read this as an affectionate parody of the way we use the world as a prop in our personal romances, without really caring about anything beyond the radius between us, drinking leftism like wine. But Merritt's own comments suggest he was responding to the naive idea of world peace troped in cheesy rock music, substituting it with alcoholism and revolution, much more violent.
I read this as an affectionate parody of the way we use the world as a prop in our personal romances, without really caring about anything beyond the radius between us, drinking leftism like wine. But Merritt's own comments suggest he was responding to the naive idea of world peace troped in cheesy rock music, substituting it with alcoholism and revolution, much more violent.