From Heartbreak Hotel to Hazbin Hotel
from Campbell Campbell-Jack, A Grain of Sand:
I’m old enough to remember the outcry over Elvis. The appearance of the hip-swivelling singer was for some a harbinger of the downfall of society. We saw the same reaction to the emergence of Beatlemania. I can remember Mary Whitehouse and her opposition to the cultural revolution of the 60s which swept the West. And I can remember the derision, ridicule and even hatred she encountered. How we atheists laughed: ‘Those crazy Christians, just because they don’t like something they want to stop everyone else from enjoying it.’
Today the early 60s seem a time of almost idyllic innocence and few can seriously say Mrs Whitehouse’s slippery slope prophecy was wrong. Fast forward to 2024 and just about every social value of that time has been bulldozed out of the way: we live in a society where morally anything goes with perhaps the exception of paedophilia (for the moment), and those ‘crazy Christians’ can be arrested when sharing their faith or praying on the street.
Adult Cartoon
2024 has hardly begun and we find Amazon, the world’s premier retailer, highlighting a new product. The adult animated musical comedy Hazbin Hotel tells the story of the princess of Hell, Charlie Morningstar. Hell has an overpopulation problem, an all-too-believable premise. So once a year Adam and the angels descend from heaven to cull demons. To avoid this, tender-hearted Charlie decides to solve Hell’s overpopulation problem: she will open a halfway house where demons can be rehabilitated and by working hard at their morality can go to heaven.
The backstory is that when God created the Earth, he created Adam with Lilith, not Eve, to be his companion. But that awful unreconstructed patriarch Adam tried to boss feminist Lilith around, and she wasn’t having any of that. She voluntarily left the Garden of Eden because she wasn’t prepared to tolerate patriarchal domination.
Lucifer is not the satanic creature of the Bible, rather he is a happy go lucky ‘dreamer’, a free-wheeling non-conformist who got on the wrong side of grumpy old God and his thuggish enforcers, the angels. When the pair met Lucifer was attracted to Lilith’s independence and the pair fell in love.
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