Thirty two years ago, on this day, November 24th, 1992, Leonard Cohen’s The Future released.
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that’s left
And stuff it up the hole in your culture…
The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was roughly 357ppm. As of 2024 it is 423ppm, but check here for daily measures.
21 years after Meadows gave his briefing at the US Embassy, Leonard Cohen’s album, the Future was released. Cohen had been making a bit of a comeback with “I’m Your Man.” The Future is a brilliant album that you should all own a copy of, or download or whatever. I’ve seen the future baby it is murder. Everybody knows the war is over. Everybody knows the good guys lost, etc. It’s a staggering artistic achievement. In my opinion.
What we learn is that Buddhism provides poetry, provides a good way of looking at the world, thinking about the world.
What happened next, Leonard Cohen played at being a monk and then had to go on the road to make money because he’d been looted.
My wife and I saw him twice. It was brilliant, it was absolutely bloody brilliant.
Here’s a video I made, of Hitler discovering his Cohen tickets are fakes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhRuLBb1b1M
What do you think? Does this pass the ‘so what?’ threshold? Have I got facts wrong? Interpretation wrong? Please do comment on this post, unless you are a denialist, obvs.
Also on this day:
November 24, 1977 – Canberra Times reports “all coal” plan would “flood US cities”
November 24, 2009 – the Climate War in Australia goes kinetic…