Carl’s Rock Songbook #69: THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO, Pt. 2

by Carl Scott

. . . one can change human institutions, but not man; whatever the general effort of a society to render citizens equal and alike, the particular pride of individuals will always seek to escape the [common] level . . . In aristocracies, men are separated from one another by high, immovable . . . . Continue Reading »

9 Nov 2012

Carl’s Rock Songbook #16: Rock’s “Leftism”

by Carl Scott

Rock intellectualizing’s third basic flaw is its captivity to bohemian/New Left assumptions regarding morals, culture, and politics. The Songbook will examine rock’s largely uncritical promotion of the sexual revolution as it unfolds, but here we consider the oddity of its leftism. On one . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Aug 2011