The POP culture today is based on rudeness, nastiness and a submission
to the oligarchical idea of everything being "totally every man for himself",
that is---anarchy.
We find ourselves literally brainwashed, listening to an Aldous Huxley like
"Brave New World" of absurd lyrics, which slowly brainwash us throughout
our entire lives. Like Patty Smith's "Dancing Barefoot"---we find ourselves
comparing our lives to some sort of psychedelic heroin (or heroine) trip.
Or as Poe wrote: Low tis a gala night,
within the lonesome later years
an angel throng, bewinged bedight
In veils and drowned in tears.
Until we deal with the classical principles of tragedy, we will have our thoughts
overwhelmed in a sea of romantic idiocy at best, our political lives being dominated
by the equivalent sophistries, such as "the War on Terror"...Need I say more?