![]() ![]() ![]() What many interpret to be Lana’s most “unhinged” remarks are these terse and lively hints. ![]() How do we know what Lana is really trying to tell us? Leo Strauss, the great 20th century philosopher, rediscovered the means by which esoteric writers communicate truth: the esotericist would first write in the “quiet, unspectacular, and somewhat boring manner which would seem natural.” Then, through “three or four sentences in that terse and lively style,” the esotericist would “arrest the attention of young men who love to think” and the “reasonable young reader would for the first time catch a glimpse of the forbidden fruit” (Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing). At its core, Lana’s music is not a praise of independence, but a warning of impending national tragedy-one that those on the Right have warned us about contra proponents of the contemporary Liberal order. Lana is what we call an ‘esoteric’ or Straussian artist: her music seems straightforward, but it is all a facade for the real meaning that exists as subtext. However, underneath the surface of Lana’s music, there exists an entire world of subterranean political symbolism. Who is Lana Del Rey? To teenage girls, gay men, and millennial women on Prozac, she is a symbol of autonomy and independence, a sign of American feminist agency. ![]()
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