by John Galt » Thu Aug 11, 2016 10:02 am
i thought something was wrong
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/sport ... games.htmlthe US anthem at the games is being played with minor chords, causing it to sound defeatist and sad instead of triumphant
now of course, the anthem itself really does end on a question (does that flag still wave over this glroious land? stay tuned to the next verse to find out), so it could be defeatist, but we don't play it that way. we don't sing it that way. what the hell are we having it in the olympics this way for
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience. -- Theodore Roosevelt
My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.