KD contrasts Halloween (good) with Black Friday (bad)--setting the stage for historian MORRIS BERMAN's brilliant and witty talk.
For Berman, the essential hollowness of America's leaders reflects the hollowness at the core of many of us--and the hollowness of The American Dream (which seems to be just a wish for more stuff). "The System" seems to be collapsing--leaving Morris with very mixed emotions.
Then singer-satirist ROY ZIMMERMAN offers a more upbeat view of the oddness of American life.
Thanks to Robin Upton, of Unwelcome Guests, for Bermans talk. http://unwelcomeguests.net.
New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "aegis") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
This installment is available also on The Internet Archive (www.archive.org).
The title is from a poem by T.S. Eliot (1925). We'll hear a bit of it at the end.
The Creative Commons license applies to my own commentary in this installment.
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