Today’s my birthday.
Looking back on who I am. . . in a strange way I’ve always been “myself” dating back to my earliest memories. And many of the same interests I had as a child are the same ones I have today. Going back through some elementary school paraphernalia I found a book report I’d written about Catherine the Great!
One of the things that’s always bugged me is people being coerced into uniformity. I always wanted to be myself. And in my own way I fought what ever was in the way of letting that happen.
That’s one reason why the state of our media bothers me so much. I picked up Time at the dentist’s the other day. The book review was of Stephen King’s latest. There was a pages-long preview of so-called major cultural events, in which, unless I missed something, not one word was breathed about dance, or classical music.
Something that the “legacy” media very rarely wants to talk about: one reason why it is circling the drain is subject matter that is homogenized and restricted, and content that is often sub standard or just generic.
Of course to talk about that would mean to break rank, and the inability to do so is one of the reasons they’re in such dire straits.