On Aug 18, 2013 2:04 AM, "Brent Busby" <brent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The ironic thing about all of this is that the most potent rock subculture ever, the psychedelic period in the 60's, was very political, and happened in an evironment that's very similar to where we are now -- questionable foreign wars, questionable executive branch practices (from both parties), massive popular disapproval of the US government. Except this time, music and art is strangely silent about it all. One would think in times like these, artists would not need to be coaxed to make a statement.
I just chanced across a quote that seems relevant:
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/18/212609212/a-dystopian-view-of-americas-fallen-suburbs
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On what [Patrick Flanery] wants readers to take away from Fallen Land
"I wanted the book to speak to a kind of crisis in neighborliness, and thinking about the ways in which people are becoming so inward-looking, and the ways in which it's incredibly easy — I think in part because of technology — not to think about what's happening around us. And that's not just thinking about security but thinking about who needs help. So it's almost about a crisis of empathy with the people that we should be looking out for but who we fail to look out for in fairly fundamental ways."
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... inward-looking... it's incredibly easy not to think about what's happening around us...
I'm guilty of that myself.
hjh
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