Leonard Bernstein's critical MASS

As controversy continues to rage over Donald Trump’s shock decision to seize control of the Kennedy Center and place a loyal apparatchik in charge, we should remember that Leonard Bernstein's MASS was commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for the opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971. Here are the painfully prophetic words from the Trope: Non Credo in Bernstein's masterpiece:

World without end spins endlessly on
Only the men who lived here are gone
Gone on a permanent vacation
Gone to await the next creation

World without end at the end of the world
Lord, don't you know it's the end of the world?
Lord, don't you care if it all ends today?
Sometimes I'd swear you planned it this way

Dark are the cities, dead is the ocean
Silent and sickly are the remnants of motion
World without end turns mindlessly round
Never a sentry, never a sound
No one to prophesy disaster 

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