As a composer / songwriter living in Los Angeles, CA, I find myself increasingly frustrated with the liberal entertainment complex. In the 1950s, movies and music affirmed our belief in America, in our troops and the missions they carry out, and overall, didn’t shame us for our pride.
Then we saw a drastic change- an era in which dissent was allowed not only to state it’s case, but to prove profitable. Not only did this offer a validation of shame, the effort to hold failures as a value, it endorsed a seemingly inseparable relationship between art in it’s many forms and the drug culture. To fit into modern culture, one’s patriotism was not permitted. Nobody seemed to notice how unAmerican they were acting, believing in war movies from the 80s filled with anti-American sentiment or ideas like John Lennon’s “Imagine”, which he was too whacked out on heroin to realize he was writing about Communism. None of his fans, even to this day, seem to notice either.
Popular media became an enemy of the state. At this point, the anatomy of politics seemed to shift; liberals became the less tolerant, the bigger haters. Even now, we see undeniable evidence of this everywhere we look.
My advice is stay out of this blue state and, if you’re here already, start packing. That’s what I’m doing- going to Nashville where sober people actually make money at this.
