Damn America

So the truth of music history is this.  We live in the times of the music we have studied.  Also we live in the times in which the music lives.  (the music lives in the time in which is it composed)  The disparity between when the music is composed and when it is recognized, understood, and felt is the void.  What is the void?  The void is the black hole between times of Enlightment.  The Dark Ages.  In America music history is waiting to be discovered.  The 20th Century, the 1900's have cemented themselves as important as any period in music history, and yet they are unstudied.  On a miniscule level they have been experienced, and yet those who experienced them are not vocal.  They are not supportive.  They are are not viable.  It would seem recent history forgets itself quickly, just as sleep deprives short term memories from becoming long term memories.  The Viet Nam era, its strife and loss, are a fleeting moment in American history.  How is this possible?  Fifty years ago, war raging, rampant political unrest is forgotten.  Today all of it is exactly the same, rebranded, re-booted, recast into selfish, faggot, extremist fodder.  Damn.