““Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.”
― Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower “”
Few in the musical arts chose to address 9/11. Mr Springsteen devoted a whole record, the pinnacle of which was the title composition done as a more electric anthem. But this acoustic version captures the horrifying somber unfathomableness the event left us with.
“A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.”