Crisis, What Crisis ?
This pop-cultural reference to Supertramp's 1975 album raises some
questions regarding the perception of current events. On the one hand I have the impression that everyone talks about the crisis but the understanding of its causes and consequences is equally limited as Franz Kafka's reaction to Germany's declaration of war against Russia on August 1, 1914:
"Germany has declared war on Russia.-Afternoon swimming lessons".
We have all followed layoffs and dire predictions; however, few comment on the fundamental shift of policy in the United States from a country that was proud of its invisible or rather non-existant hand meddling in free markets to politicians nationalizing banks, insurance carriers and heavily subsidizing other industries.
For years the United States has advised other countries on how to establish free markets, now it does not want to take its own medicine. Decades of economic study have been tossed within the blink of an eye.
Few analyses exist investigating the repercussions for individuals.
The trillion dollar bailouts: who is going to pay for them and when and how ?
How is a country whose GDP depends 70 % on consumer spending recover when the line of unemployed is getting longer by the day ?
Which business will see its customers able to pay the bills ?
When will banks start lending again ?
Even though the answers are difficult, let's be better than Kafka and where our powers of analysis fail, persistently demand from our elected representatives, the media and the government to inform us properly.
Comments
Anna
Crisis? What Crisis? is the second in a line of four, what I call, masterpieces from Supertramp. It's a work dominated by Roger Hodgson, who does vocals on seven of the ten songs.
The remaster is crisp and clean, with songs such as "Sister Moonshine," and "The Meaning" ringing sweet out to my ears.
But what I want to mention is that this package finally contains the long lost lyrics to the album. In the past releases I owned, they were never included. I had to go out and find the actual "Crisis? What Crisis?" song book to get them. And to all you Supertramp fans out there....the lyrics on this remaster contain many mistakes. "A Soapbox Opera" was always hard to figure out, and the key lyric at the bridge is wrong. (The correct lyric is "But rather than a reason, there's a smog in my head") Very good publish referring to this topic!
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