Perhaps Lenny couldn't bear singing "Hallelujah" anymore & who

can blame him? To say there will never be another one like him is not

only to acknowledge his poetic genius. Leonard Cohen was the product of

an era of music & poetry & artistic courage. That era was

murdered a long time ago. Welcome to the Age of Nihilism, child of an

era of mediocrities hyped up as giants that supplanted the period that

gave us Lenny & many other true giants.

Sinatra was able to

help put JFK in the White House. Nixon was despised but a visit from

Elvis helped him get re-elected in a 49 state landslide. Bob Dylan never

campaigned for Jimmy Carter, but merely quoting Dylan lyrics helped

Jimmy get elected. But the collective voices of Lady Gaga, Katy Perry,

Miley Cyrus, Jon Bon Jovi, Jay Z, & Beyonce couldn't move the needle

one millimeter for Hillary Clinton. Because they are lightweights,

& they will be remembered as such if they're remembered at all. For

the past 30 years, the corporations have imposed their mediocre heroes

on American culture which is why the slogan "Make America Great Again"

had such cache. Want to know why Trump got elected? Watch Entertainment

Tonight & experience the lobotomy.

The famous names,

guardians of the status quo, will have no part to play in the drama that

is about to unfold. Instead the nameless nobodies long denied power,

wealth, & influence by corporate fiat will determine America's

future more than Trump & his fascist agenda. Those who smugly

dismiss the protestors as inconsequential should consider some history:

At the dawn of the first American Civil War, which began months before

Lincoln took office, Ulysses S. Grant had been reduced to clerking in

his kid brother's leather goods store. Yet it was Grant, more than

Lincoln, that reduced the Confederacy to rubble. At the dawn of the

First World War, T.E. Lawrence was a mapmaker with a fondness for erotic

Arabian poetry. At war's end, Lawrence & Churchill will redraw the

map of the Middle East inventing an artificial nation called Iraq. The

European aristocracy that created the climate for war died with Franz

Ferdinand. On December 7, 1941 (that other day of infamy besides Nov. 9,

2016),
General Yamamoto said Imperial Japan had awoken a sleeping giant.

The

biggest victims of the Trump presidency won't be the Mexicans or

Muslims but the sons & daughters of the rednecks who voted for

Trump. They will die in the desert fighting an unwinnable war in the

Middle East. Unlike during Vietnam, there will be little campus protest.

Little sympathy. The general feeling will be that the rednecks got

exactly what they paid for. Americans must really love those dystopian

movies Hollywood has been producing lately. Life imitates art. Those who

wonder what all this has to do with the late great Leonard Cohen should

listen to his song: "Everybody Knows".

Sincerely, G. Kaneda

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