Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
As AA noted, Route 66 used to be *the* way to escape the madness. I used to be hellbent on 20 hour drive-a-thons to whatever sector of the country or side of the border till I figured out planes fly, cars sink, so as to outmaneuver the coasts. I was amazed meeting an Oregon woman in her 30's who'd never been to the ocean 100 miles away. Seems the post-war wanderlust has largely subsided,
The top 19 states for passport-holders all voted for Clinton. The bottom half sans 1 (NM) voted for Trump. Remember, some of us are moving even faster, but some of us (them) are moving even slower. Remember all the lessons from Relativity - for all appearances, they've essentially stopped. Normally we might not care - in 2017, it's a problem - get these people out of the house, have them visit somewhere. As Stan Kinison used to say to Ethiopians and the famine problem, "Move! You live in a fucking desert!!!"
Same can be said for much of America - a cultural desert. Move!
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Of course the mention of a comment by me caught my eye and then I read the article and I went: you've got to be shitting me, this is the opposite of what I was reading last time I kept up with socioeconomic stuff (which was probably too long ago), it was always: Americans are more and more on the move for jobs.
So I look at: who wrote this thing? And I see it's Tyler Cowen. Who I remember as a libertarian economist that Emma and I liked to read at his Marginal Revolution blog, because he seemed to take fresh outside-the-box approaches to everything. And then I see he's director of the Mercatus Center at Mason University where it seems a lot of young folks are studying socioeconomic stuff, for want of a better word. And I check his Wikipedia entry. THEN I see that the NYTimes has hired him as a regular columnist and I immediately think of my comment and Maiello's comment over here in reply to oceankat about in addition to moderate Republicans, what op ed columnists are popular with millenials?
And then it was: doh! The answer is: new age libertarians.
So I type into Google "tyler cowen popular with millenials" and the first item up was this:
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 3:59am
Is "matcher" the new term for "slacker"? See Rev. JR "Bob" Dobbs & the Church of the Subgenius...
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 4:41am
Well I would say it's all in how you want to label "it". Certainly if you haven't seen any complaints by older generations that millenials are "slackers", you've been living under a rock.
Your reference to Rev. Dobbs just reminds me of recently learning about how current pop favorite Lana del Ray has all this 50's and early 60's white trash stuff in her videos, like beat up pickup trucks, but then they are floating around the heavens like a spaceship....no chronology, nope, chronology is out, take the stuff you like and mix it all up. Is like one millenial college student said to me "what's wrong with Santana? I like Santana". Another one said "oh, the Stones, they are awesome." Like as if I would say in 1968 "what's wrong with Lawrence Welk?" They don't even know they are supposed to hate their parents....
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 5:27am
Ah, like Zappa's "when your children find out how lame you are, they'll kill you in your sleep". Always good for some wide-eyed pondering of the future possibility.
I'm observing an early 70's/late 60's acquisition stage right now - but it's a bit different because it's 1 of the areas where we actually bond - I'm ubertolerant & approving of whatever music - careful not to stamp any disapproving tone to it, but there's an obvious subtle point when a pick's a homerun (Franz Ferdinand, for example), whereas I've been through too many music phases where we liked music *because* it was kitsch, or so awful it was good, or other contrary moods.
But I'm not sure there's any order to it - no liner notes, no attachment to albums, no specific genres - 6 billion songs out there, let's listen to 'em all... on random play?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 4:19pm
Lol! You got it, that's what I see too. Now imagine trying to figure out what's going to happen with the art market....we oldsters in the field see this: connoisseurship? out the window! who cares which does imply a rejection: our knowledge and experience is obsolete, useless...
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/28/2017 - 5:01pm