On a day when the fractures within American labor became open rebellion, apparently caused by still declining union membership and influence, it’s useful to note two other news stories that illustrate the validity of some old verities, sadly lost in the age of Reagan-Bush.
For a story that also asks the musical question: can an economy and a society based on the principles of personal selfishness and greed, liberated envy and cultivated unconsciousness. as well as institutionalized ignorance, last for long?
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Slackers 90s: Land of the Frazzled, Home of the Frayed
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Above: interior of The Beehive on Pittsburgh's South Side, an expression of
Gen X and Slacker culture in the 1990s. Below: art on the walls of the
South S...
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