Re: I have no Halloween suggestions - yet..

[rhys daily <shadow at teuton_org>]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, John Davis wrote:

> Hmmm.
>
> I don't know that I'd say 'The Boy in the Bubble" is "about day-to-day
> third world events." It seems to me to be more about the inability of
> education and technology to provide the mircales that lead to an ideal
> society like we were promised.  The third-world imagery is just imagery
> employed in that larger meaning.

you friendly american, you

it's talking about a test site.

where people turned into dust from a bomb.

there were tons of test sites in the west. they woudl come in and set up
things and blow them up test the radioactive stuff

then there's the fact that in some other countries, these things happened
for real

> Most of Paul Simon's songs deal with middle-class Americans. Even when
> an album is heavy on imagery from other cultures (The Rhythm of the
> Saints has the most egregious examples), the themes and ideas are still
> very American - getting old and looking back at your highschool
> yearbook, the government's corruption, the waning of faith's importance,
> weariness, lost love, hope found in the birth fo a child, etc, etc.

funny

i thouhgt those things were more universal

anyone delights in a child, feels old. looks back. gets tired. gov't
corruption! we've got nothing on say, venezuela - who's country went
bankrupt.  peru = who's president fled to another country, who's president
and cheief of mlitary were caught on tape doing bad things. or kenya -
where there are ganggs and people've been promised land, but instead have
not been given it - so slums rose up. Democratic congo - stil torn apart
by fighting. liberia, at war for 17? years. the gov't won't ask fo rhelp,
and can't do it themselves. ivory coast, now torn apart by rebels - issues
with racism and military training at the root of it. south africa in the
past denial about AIDS, neglecting orphans, racism.  iran - a reporter
dies mysteriously. ethiopia eritrea - border fighting, towns torn in 2 -
people paying to cross back over and get a pssport so families are not
split up. and tha'ts the surface of things. not to mention indonesia, asia
and europe.

yea, corruption - only in america (:

rhys

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