06-22-2016, 10:39 PM
The 3T begins when the new pop acts all quit pretending to stand for anything noble or pushing to improve the listener. The folk-like acts of the Awakening era became nostalgia, and the new pop became strictly hedonistic. That's about when I made the complete break from pop to classical music.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.