Happy New Year’s Eve! This final post of 2024, as with last week’s penultimate offering, ties in some music with the current state of the nation. We’ll return to our weekly Wednesday exploration of modernity and the metacrisis on January 8.
It does not bode well for Homo [occasionally] sapiens, especially in the United States, that in 2024 we lost a football and rugby player, Golden Gloves boxer, Atlantic fiction award-winning, Rhodes Scholar, Blake- and Yeats-quoting, Army Ranger Captain helicopter pilot, singer-songwriter, actor, dad, and grandpa, and re-elected as President a relentless liar, failed salesman, professional litigator, indicted and convicted criminal, and protege of disbarred, discredited, homophobic, Joseph McCarthy attorney, Roy Cohn.
Notes and Sources:
The Rhodes Scholar link includes includes a statement from the Rhodes Trust after his September 2024 death, and a clip of Kris performing three songs at the Rhodes Trust’s 110th Anniversary Reunion in 2013.
From a financial wealth and income perspective, I probably qualify.
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