Republicans holding ideas like those of Trump skew markedly old, and any agenda or customer base that gets older without replenishment by fresh customers tends to fde out. This explains why music whose fans are largely in their sixties (like classical music) isn't being marketed as it once was. CD's of classical music are often available for a dollar a disc in used-goods shops. Wanna know what is really cheap? You can get LP records of such people as Patti Page, Lawrence Welk, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Dinah Shore, Perry Como, and Guy Lombardo for 3 for a dollar. People die, and the latter don't sell at estate sales.
A few days ago I went to an electronics store that supposedly had a listening room. It instead had a display at which the only music that I could test speakers on was either rap "music" (which is about as much an oxymoron as "safe polonium") or country music (which sounds alike no matter what one plays it on). The last time I bought stereo speakers I used music for string quartet. Because string quartets are a big part of the classical repertory and most of the symphonic orchestra is a multiple of two violins, a viola, and a cello, any speakers that can't do justice to a string quartet are schlock -- no matter how expensive. But I am old, and I am thus trash to marketers. To them I might as well be a homeless bum on skid row, rotting my brain and character on cheap booze.
A few days ago I went to an electronics store that supposedly had a listening room. It instead had a display at which the only music that I could test speakers on was either rap "music" (which is about as much an oxymoron as "safe polonium") or country music (which sounds alike no matter what one plays it on). The last time I bought stereo speakers I used music for string quartet. Because string quartets are a big part of the classical repertory and most of the symphonic orchestra is a multiple of two violins, a viola, and a cello, any speakers that can't do justice to a string quartet are schlock -- no matter how expensive. But I am old, and I am thus trash to marketers. To them I might as well be a homeless bum on skid row, rotting my brain and character on cheap booze.
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.
