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mail volume seems up in anticipation of the 'tour' i hope it comes up
to everyone's expectations... i don't have a clue... rehearsals start
monday... comments on sociology etc... what ive come to lately is that
we in america are finally experiencing a backlash to the liberalism of
the sixties... seems like yesterday odd it was forty years ago... i think
the sixties was the last 'jump' in human consciousness, morality, ideals
etc etc... since then things have been going forward, but in a curve as
it were... im not really clear on why this has happened, nature does seem
to swing back and forth, that combined with the repressive tendencies
of any government (you cant have control without somebody to be controlled)
and the trends in anti-intellectualism that have been in play probably
since the thirties (come to think of it anti intellectualism probably
coincides with the rise, and fear, of communism in the west, people coming
to associate intellectuals with dangerous red types, these stereotypes
being encouraged by the 'establishment')... for example i remember being
heavily influenced by the film "performance" which starred Mick Jagger
who was one of my teenage heroes, in the movie MJ plays a well read very
reclusive rock star, in one scene he reads a passage from Borjes, the
blind Argentinean writer, as a result of that i went out and read more
of his stuff which was a little tricky for me to understand at the time
but still fantastic... |
