[NewMusic] What David Cope is up to

[Sarah - 21 Grand]

George wrote:
The selling of 'revolution' and 'individuality' had already reached a
nauseating peak 
by the mid-90's, so probably most 26-year-olds have no clue how deeply
they've been 
molded to be what they are supposed to be: apolitical high-consumers who
take the 
democracy 'show', and their impotence to change it, for granted.

- well, in the defense of those who weren't old enough to remember this
nadir of commercial appropriation of "alternative" culture, (I saw "Reality
Bites" in the theater ... ugh.) there are books available on the subject.
Thomas Frank's "The Conquest of Cool" is a good one. It covers the time
period of the 50s through the 90s. One could always watch such films as
"Network" and "Putney Swope."

sl