The thing about the US, is that just about any truth you can say about the social milieu is wrong, somewhere else in the US. It's big divisive and heterogenous as a whole, and dangerously homogenous locally.Obvious Leo wrote:HaHa. I read it too and thought the same thing and that this bloke doesn't get Bowie at all. I didn't bother commenting directly because I reckon to get Bowie you sort of had to be there as part of the broader cultural zeitgeist. Very few Americans would have had a hope of understanding the early Bowie in his correct context although he later deliberately incorporated many of the American musical styles into his own work.Hobbes' Choice wrote: I read what you wrote, in full.
Guess what - you don't get it.
Americans, outside New York, and the West coast, don't get Bowie.
Most of the USA is 45 years behind the social development of the rest of the Western world, last year they were 44 years behind, and next year they will be 46 years behind.
Do we image the Bill, and his friend Trump get it? I doubt it.
In the US many of the progress made by Harvey Milk with gay rights across the US, has gone into reverse in the last couple of decades. The religious are a growing force, and whilst atheism is on the increase the consequence is not progressive but polarising.
The US is pretty damn stretched.