I listened to quite a bit of this interview, and I did enjoy it. Charles is a friend of mine.
Here.
Topics include:
Contrasting the histories of Las Vegas and New Orleans
The ecological impacts of building cities in the desert
How both cities serve a function as a destination for escape, hedonism, and vice
How bread and circuses distract the masses.
How without the law, there would be no vice.
How when vice becomes suppressed, it becomes more cruel.
How New Orleans has gentrified since Hurricane Katrina.
How the culture of New Orleans is one that enjoys life because it accepts death.
How in New Orleans there’s no pressure to be either moral or immoral.
The European cultural influence in New Orleans.
The cult of youth.
