Summary: America has become quite weird. It’s getting more so. Here are a few recent examples. With an important conclusion at the end. Political parody and comedy blur together in our America Mad magazine ran the photo on the left on 12 December. Time ran the right cover on 29 May. Trump’s leftist critics have …
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Summary: The new music video by Katy Perry provides a warning and a call to action for America. Looking deeper, it reveals much about America. The video deserves attention as entertainment, as art, and as a mirror in which we can more clearly see ourselves. Below is the video, followed by analysis. Are …
Katy Perry shows us America. We should listen to her. Read More »
Somehow, sometime, we fell asleep. Not physically. America still fights wars for no visible reason in distant lands. We still invent Ipads, boy bands, and pop tarts. We (businesses, households, and governments) fecklessly borrow trillions. We root for our favorite sports teams. But somehow the vital spark has died out, the spark that should animate …
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Summary: We are at war, a war now in its second decade. We’re increasingly mobilizing every aspect of our society to defeat the enemy. Not just the massive expansion of our military, intelligence services, and domestic security services (no longer well-described as “police”). Inevitably this militarization spreads, affecting other aspects of our society. Our enemy …
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