#american roots

[onenakedfarmer]

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Alan Lomax POPULAR SONGBOOK Field Recordings 1933-1959

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE INDIGENOUS-AMERICANA STYLINGS OF THE DEAD -- A CULT STATE OF MIND.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1280x1648 -- Spotlight on the roots imagery of an American cultural institution -- Cover art to "Grateful Dead Comix" Vol. 1? #3, c. 1991. Published by Kitchen Sink Press. Artwork by Tim Truman.

"Leaving Texas, Fourth day of July, Sun so hot, clouds so low, The eagles filled the sky.

Catch the Detroit Lightning out of Santa Fe, Great Northern out of Cheyenne, From sea to shining sea."

-- "Jack Straw" (1972) by GRATEFUL DEAD

Source: www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldead/comments/1w1nf0.

[sluttypatrickstar]

sits bolt upright in bed because i knew there would be an attempt to break the solidarity formed in the wake of the CEO shooting and i’m seeing it happen. people who were celebrating it are doing it themselves by digging through his social media and decrying him as just another alt right. but if this really is the guy who did it then like, what does that matter? are we really going to let this disrupt the momentum and the possibility for change? he did the thing. he (allegedly) killed the CEO and that same day another health insurance company backpedaled on one of its new dystopian ideas. now is not the time for “oh, he’s just another” – now is the time to drive that momentum forwards and to keep going. deny defend depose

[abrawib]

Check out this awesome 'Declaration of Independence (distressed)' design on @TeePublic!

[dreaming-of-coelacanths]

Dear usamericans, can I interest you in an online copy of Civil Disobedience and The Theory of the Leisure Class ? As someone from a country where protesting is second-nature, I feel inclined to share these essays. They may be old, but they hold up surprisingly well in today's capitalistic hellscape. So read up! Knowledge is power.

[rawrampmag]

MIKE ROSS Album Release Dates

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The multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist, and astonishingly assiduous re-worker of blues sounds & American roots music  MIKE ROSS has announced a run of selected UK shows in support of his forthcoming, rock-infused, 12-track album ‘Third Eye Open’ which is due out 28th April, 2023.  Pre-orders for the album — available in several formats — are now open and the countdown to the exciting …

[johnbitchsociety]

I feel like both internet liberals and leftists have a tendency to reverse-Great Man Theory Ronald Reagan at the expense of any insight into the history of his policies or the conservative movement that led up to him.

[triptychofvoids]

bitteschön! for being such a good test subject! i mean patient.

[centaurianthropology]

One thing that I think a lot of Disco Elysium meta misses (likely because a lot of it is very clearly written by young Americans writing from an intensely American-centric cultural perspective without even really realizing it) is that one of the singular and central themes of the game is massive-scale generational trauma in a home that is economically collapsing as its resources and people are being drained by an occupation.  People have noted that no one tries to help Harry, despite the fact his mental illness is incredibly obvious to everyone around him.  He tells Kim that he completely lost his memory, and Kim politely asks him to focus on the work.  He tells Gottlieb that he had a heart attack, and Gottlieb tells him that if he’s still alive it couldn’t have been that bad.  That he’ll drop dead sooner or later, but then so does everyone.

And that’s the most important thing: so does everyone.  Look at Martinaise.  Look at the world in which Harry lives.  It is not our own, but it is adjacent to ours.  More specifically, it is clearly adjacent to the states of the Eastern Bloc: overtaken and occupied by a faraway government that clearly doesn’t care about Revachol or its people.  And that is obvious in every tired face, every defeated citizen, everyone trying to eke out a little happiness or meaning in spite of the overwhelming trauma and damage around them.  The buildings are still half-destroyed.  The bullet holes are still in the walls.  The revolution was decades before, but it still feels to the people there like a fresh wound.  The number of men of Harry’s generation who are not alcoholic or otherwise deeply fucked up are very few.  Some, like Kim, hide it better, but the deeper you dig into his history, the more you realize how damaged Kim is.  He’s more than a little trigger happy, and hates that about himself, but he is a product of his environment: Kim’s entire life is seeing people he cared about shot and killed, so his instinct now is to shoot first himself, to protect those few people left who still matter to him.

Harry is not unique in his trauma.  He is a distillation of an entire culture of people who tried to rise up and make something beautiful, and were instead routed and occupied.  He is trapped between the occupation and the people on the ground, along with all the rest of the RCM.  Their authority comes from the occupying government, but it is implied that they were formed out of the remnants of the citizens militia which sprung up from Revachol itself as a way to try to mitigate some of the horrors being committed on its streets.  The Moralintern sure as hell wasn’t going to get their hands dirty, so they happily conscripted (and therefore could better control) this group, who are only recognized in certain places, and whose authority mostly amounts to giving out fines.  The RCM is corrupt, but it is corrupt in the same way its culture is.  Bribes are considered standard with them, not a moral failing, but a necessity, so long as those bribes are correctly logged as ‘donations’.  It’s how the RCM stays afloat, and the rest of Revachol completely understands that.  Everyone would take a bribe if it meant they kept eating.  Everyone would take a little under-the-table money if it meant keeping a roof over their heads.  The officersof the RCM certainly don’t make enough to see a doctor.  They have an in-house lazarus, and if he can’t fix them they just die.  Mental health care?  What mental health care?  Harry doesn’t get it for the same reason no one else does: it doesn’t really seem to exist.  There are no counselors, no psychologists, no psychiatrists.  How would they even start?  If the world is what is broken, if everyone is suffering a similar catastrophic amount, it makes sense that Harry’s trauma would simply get rolled up with all the rest.  Kim asks him to get on with the job because Harry’s suffering is not remarkable in Revachol.  He is one of an entire generation who have an astronomical number of orphans from the revolution, and so many younger people are left more or less orphans as their parents drink themselves into oblivion like Cuno’s father.  So Harry’s truly unique attribute is embodying all that trauma, having it all inside of him, filling him to bursting.

To really engage with the themes of the game, engaging first and foremost with the reality of Revachol is imperative.  Imposing our own reality onto Revachol, particularly if coming from an American perspective (which tend to have the habit of both viewing the world through an American lens and not realizing they’re doing it because they’ve never experienced a different lens), will always feel shallow to me because of this.

All that is to say, I would love to hear some more explicitly European meta about this game, and especially Eastern European meta.  If anyone can point me to some good, juicy essays from that perspective, I would be grateful!

[angelspearlheart]

Roadtrip with a parking lot princess

[letterful]

i know i'm not saying anything revolutionary here, but the american cult of individualism really is going to doom us all. in a very real - and very global - sense.

[sluttypatrickstar]

sits bolt upright in bed because i knew there would be an attempt to break the solidarity formed in the wake of the CEO shooting and i’m seeing it happen. people who were celebrating it are doing it themselves by digging through his social media and decrying him as just another alt right. but if this really is the guy who did it then like, what does that matter? are we really going to let this disrupt the momentum and the possibility for change? he did the thing. he (allegedly) killed the CEO and that same day another health insurance company backpedaled on one of its new dystopian ideas. now is not the time for “oh, he’s just another” – now is the time to drive that momentum forwards and to keep going. deny defend depose

[ariadnethedragon]

AMERICAN PRIMEVAL (2025)

Episode 6

[offhandpoppies]

happy birthday to the guy done dirtiest by the narrative, the one true rat of the league, and the captain of your las vegas aces: kent parson!

[feketeribizli]

biggest loss of 2024. to me

[saydesole]

Merry Christmas 🎅🏾