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Hatherley points out that “Now and Then” sounds like a generative model’s approximation of the Beatles, and it’s hard to disagree, especially since it would be fitting if the comparison could help each discredit the other. But mostly it is just easy, for me at least, to make a self-satisfied show of contempt for it, which doesn’t discredit anything but myself. It wants to be forgettable, so we forget about the ongoing conditions that made it possible too.
The Beatles Did Not Take Place
Rob Horning
Sadie laughed a bit to herself, thinking this was what it was like to play someone else’s game: to have the illusion of choice, without actual choice.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
After Kristallnacht in 1938, for instance, a delegation from the Australian Aborigines League wrote a protest letter condemning “the cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi Government of Germany”20 and, in a little-known historical chapter, hand-delivered it to the German consulate in Melbourne (the consulate refused to accept it). This was well before Western governments were willing to confront Hitler; yet these Indigenous leaders, who were still fighting for basic rights of their own, clearly saw the gravity of the threat.
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