I knew I'd written these but I just wasn't sure exactly when. Well, first, it was September of 2020, almost four years ago. I coined a phrase-name that I'm sure wasn't completely popular. I never meant it in partisan political terms. I meant it as descriptive. Warren Biden. A hybrid of Warren Harding and Joseph Biden. It's appropriate today in July 2024 because of the connections I made in my … [Read more...]
The 1920s-As-2020s Overview – The Rhyme Of History
June 27, 2023 by
THE 1920s-As-2020s Overview – The Rhyme of History Laying the Groundwork... Americans of 2020-2023 and Americans of 1918-1921 share a striking similarity. They encountered, endured, and exited a deeply serious public crisis. That crisis shared (rhymed, in my parlance) key realities. The primary sharing point was that in both periods Americans coped with a pandemic that collided with the major … [Read more...]
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May 11, 2023 by
Thank you for visiting a new part of my latest work, the 20s-as-20s. It's my strong belief that we in the 2020s are living a kind of poetic rhyme with the 1920s. It's not identical, but it has a particular connected motion that can look and feel oddly similar. Think of the words "hog", "fog", "clog", and "dog." They're different in meaning but in their rhyming they can give a sense of movement if … [Read more...]
