MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
It's not like things were optimistic in the Rust Belt Midwest in the late 70's/early 80's. We were sick of malaise and "put on another sweater", still dealing with the debris and broken lives of Vietnam but not thrilled to repeat in Iran or El Salvador or with Russia, hard working but feeling the American Dream had gone off the rails. Why so different from today? How'd Springsteen segue into Ted Nugent and Kid Rock, two "tough guys" with 0 compassion and less sense? We used to cherish at least being the underdog - now we only respect and wannabe top dawg. What's happened? Is it just 30 years of Wal-mart and Fox News, or has something else happened? And how do we get our soul back, the one that could balance conflict and 2 sides to a story and not lose our shit - our sanity, our cool?
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Whatever the distance from then to now, the cluelessness of Will and Reagan (as described in the article) has been a constant. In the key of "Libertarian" privacy, all choices happen in the light. But in real life, the choices that matter the most happen in the dark where predators live.
Springsteen sings in Point Blank:
by moat on Sun, 07/23/2017 - 4:08pm