What is the Purple Rain?

Is it the reign of the ritually transgendered? Were they laughing at us because we couldn’t quite see it? I saw it. I just didn’t know why they looked like that.

 

Like everyone else, I was brainwashed to view them as superior because they had the money and the reigns of the media and government.

 

Being born into a cult and having the game rigged in one’s favor is not any sort of real superiority. It inures someone into a sort of financially motivated helplessness. 

 

I saw their skills were low and their main job was trying to look cute and waiting for the check to arrive in the mail. 

I kept wondering why there was a barrier, why I couldn’t succeed.

I was told it was because I didn’t have the right connections. But I had been in contact with those who had all the advantages and they wouldn’t help me succeed. They would just afford me the opportunity to prey on me - to exploit and put me down. They’d throw scraps so I’d stick around like they did to their dog.

 

Are the ritually transgendered the ones reserved for all the advantages that were closed off to me?

 

When I was a celebrity photographer, I felt acutely aware there was no chance to rise above that level. I could only serve their celebrity glamour beast from the bottom rung.

 

Do the rest of us look into that ritually transgendered world from the outside? I always knew exactly who they were and that I wasn’t one of them.

 

I lived in their town. I went to NYU in Paris. Though I went to school with them, their world was closed off to me. The rich do odd things to mark themselves, it seems.