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New World Notes - Things Fall Apart
This week on New World Notes: radio program #234, August 28, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst considers the possibility that our whole interdependent system is falling apart.
The economy ... American political democracy ... the climate ... the whole ecosystem--all seem to be collapsing at once. In a poem of 1920, W.B. Yeats noted, "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." The show features a good routine on the very subject by George Carlin (early 1990s), music by James McMurtry (from "Ruins of the Realm"), Yeats's poem, and somewhat-humorous reflections by Kenneth Dowst.
You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both A-Infos Radio Project and (from #90 onwards) the Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chronological listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page; each page has links to the recorded audio; and a handy table of contents will quickly find the installment you want.
Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want--and what they're trying to make us settle for.