Hubris is essential to underpinning America's delusional sense of exceptionalism — that fiction it presented to the world deriving from a place of isolation on a continent so blessed with resources and relatively untouched by the genocided native population such that it made those Eighteenth-century framers of the Constitution drunk with grandiose visions. Anyway, that's the way it seems to me.
"Rape, murder, it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away". That 8 bars of melody by Merry Clayton is one of the all time gems. And my fave Stones tune of all.
American exceptionalism or American hubris. One leads to the other. Other countries have it too, except America’s is … well … exceptional.
Hubris is essential to underpinning America's delusional sense of exceptionalism — that fiction it presented to the world deriving from a place of isolation on a continent so blessed with resources and relatively untouched by the genocided native population such that it made those Eighteenth-century framers of the Constitution drunk with grandiose visions. Anyway, that's the way it seems to me.
So the 2nd Empire dies.
Good riddance to both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPoj7hVLR1s
"Rape, murder, it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away". That 8 bars of melody by Merry Clayton is one of the all time gems. And my fave Stones tune of all.
lol Vin…
Mine is “Street Fighting Man”, which Mick Jagger wrote while he was in Paris during a riot. He admired that about the French!
Also a good one, gyp.
Gems aglow in dark times.