There are a LOT more festivals in my country then there were in the 90s. And its a lot easier to gain some fame and book a concert venue.
The days of snorting cocaine in studios for months and making concept albums are over. Its back to traveling around and entertaining people. Worked for thousands of years.
Thats far too easy. In a democracy YOU are the state.
I wonder what would happen if we could live cast our military deployments so that every voter has access to every war crime committed? Maybe then people wouldn't be so quick to sign up for another war. Or they would at least be honest about it.
Watch films and TV shows where blatantly illegal actions - including Geneva convention war crimes - are committed by the heros. I'm not persuaded the public wants less of this. And politicians sometimes play to this, asking for action that's of dubious legality
This is a big one I think. From what I've read, in Vietnam, you just needed to get letter from your local newspaper accrediting you as a journalist, and you basically got a free ticket anywhere in Vietnam with the US military.
Now it's a lot harder to get embedded as a journalist with military units.
My country is literally one bad storm away from turning into Atlantis. Puerto Rico is not a disaster, hurricanes are a part of the weather over there and every American should be ashamed of what happened. Sing God bless America because it sure as hell isn't going to be saved by its people.
We are running into a problem here: how do you kill a parasite without killing the host? The US is not an export economy, it produces very little tangible goods. Its a very insular economy that because of its superpower history has deeply spread its cancer cells across the global economy. How do you fight it?
Anyone remember the 1980s Apple commercial referencing Big Brother? Hilarious in hindsight.
https://youtu.be/2zfqw8nhUwA