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The Root of All Evil?
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Money was also a theme in all the authors’ segments: the huge amount that the golf habit consumes; the fact that nerds became somewhat fashionable in the 1980s when the economy shifted in ways that put many of them on top; Hawley’s feeling that fame and money are the true American obsessions; and Jennings’ discussion of how the commercialization of country music inevitably “sanded it down.”
Once you get beyond having what we might refer to as a solid middle class life, does money make things better, or does it degrade things, as in the case of the authentic quality of country music?
posted by Anonymous on June 1, 2008 at 11:42 PM