These bother me because there have been so many comparisoms to USA of today and 1930's Germany....some are bogus of course, but then there's this description of reading a newspaper column:
"It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches anothers words in his mouth and then gives them out again, undigested , to enter my soul through my eyes."
He could just as well be describing a David Broder column or perhaps even one of Judith Miller's infamous pre-invasion columns of the New York Times.
And then, there's the music...like the music he heard coming from one of the imfamous caberets
One half of the music, the melody, was all pomade and sugar and sentimentality. The other half was savage, tempermental and vigorous. Yet the two went together artlessly well and made a whole. It was the music of decline.
He could also have been talking about listenig to any to any top 40 station on your car radio.
These disturb me very much
Let's talk about this.......
About Me
- hizzoner
- I have been involved in politics since I was 18 years old....let's just say that was a considerably long time ago. I've been in legislative service, I've been in local government as both staff and an elected official (three times actually). I have an almost child-like belief in the good that government can do and have always felt that it was my duty to make government work for the people it represented no matter what venue I was in. If I have any admirable trait at all, I think it must be insight. Maybe there's something to the zodiac sign business afterall because my sign says that I am supposed to have special insights into people and I have found that it's true....at least thus far.