Blue Jeans Have Gone Around The World.

Every Day, Human Beings Are Worth Less. That's The Triumph Of Capitalism. The Money Gets Made, And The Fewer People We Need To Make That Money.

What Drugs Haven't Destroyed, The War Against Them Has

Rural America's Not Coming Back. That Idea Was Lost With The Industrial Revolution. And Yet With More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Living In Metropolitan Areas, There Are Still Demagogues Who Want To Run Down The Idea Of Multiculturalism, Of Urbanity, Being The Only Future We Have. We Either Live Or Die Based On How We Live In Cities, And Our Society Is Either Going To Be Great Or Not Based On How We Perform As Creatures Of The City.

What City Has Given The World More In Terms Of American Culture Than New Orleans? There Is None. Not New York. Not L.a. Not Chicago. Not Anywhere, In The Sense That African American Music Has Gone Around The World Twenty Times Over, And It's Continuing To Evolve. It Is Our Greatest Cultural Export.

We Have No Sense Of The Collective Anymore In America. The Response To Katrina Was Proof Positive Of That.