Archive for December 2006
Prediction 9: Barack Obama Will Win in 2008
Posted by: duckandgather on: December 25, 2006
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American Turnings and Music (4 of 4): People vs. Corporations
Posted by: duckandgather on: December 13, 2006
This is the fourth and final posting of this series that concerns a model I’ve stumbled upon correlating emergence of new American music genres with Strauss & Howe’s Fourth Turning theories. This last posting looks at how this progression of new music genres points straight to People vs. Corporations — just like the book seems [...]
Podcasts
Posted by: duckandgather on: December 11, 2006
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I just uploaded a backlog of podcasts. Been awhile. But here they are:
(107) My 2006 Greece Trip. Back after two weeks in Greece. Same story about the amazing food there. Some notes on body odor and Serbia. Also picked olives with my dad, had them pressed, and brought back the olive oil. Mmm mmm.
(108) You [...]
Barack Obama as Anti-Corporate?
Posted by: duckandgather on: December 10, 2006
Before I finish up with the “American Turnings and Music” series, I thought I’d do a quick entry on Barack Obama. This fellow has been getting so much frothing sycophantic attention from the media as the possible (probable?) next President that I figured I should comment.
Well, my first instincts were highly suspicious. After reading much [...]
American Turnings and Music (3 of 4): Protest
Posted by: duckandgather on: December 9, 2006
This is the third part of this blog series on music and American social turnings as described in The Fourth Turning. Here, we’ll look at how each new music genre seems to embody a protest against limitations inherent in the previous genre — or at least, in what the previous genre has evolved to by [...]
American Turnings and Music (2 of 4): My Model
Posted by: duckandgather on: December 8, 2006
Continuing on from my previous posting, this posting will set forth a model correlating emergent American music genres with the social “turnings” described by authors Strauss & Howe in The Fourth Turning. For each of these turnings, I will set forth:
the name and year range of that turning assigned by Strauss & Howe
the name of [...]
American Turnings and Music (1 of 4): Introduction
Posted by: duckandgather on: December 8, 2006
A couple of evenings ago, for some reason or another, I got to reading about Charles Manson and his “Family” on the web. I had read the book Helter Skelter decades ago and hadn’t thought much about that case since. But, as noted, my interest was drawn back in, and with the Internet, we can [...]
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