Wild Bunny
"The Role of Myth in Community Reinvention in a Post Industrial Age: An Essay in Postmodernist Interpretation." A simple enough title for Delyth Primrose's Doctoral Thesis, but as a title was it humble enough? The point being that back then when we were all so much younger it was the rage for the brighter sparks in the Western World to pontificate mightily on the end of the Industrial Age to no great effect and even fewer conclusions. The increasing powerlessness of the worker was a prime source of tremendous unhappiness, we were ripening for the fascists, and of course in the scrap for funding, society was increasingly becoming a problem of Business Management. As a result our world as an engine of productivity lost its dreams to another death spiral. Let's face it, as we stare back into the past, Miss Primrose's preoccupation with sadomasochism was probably more fruitful. Baxter certainly thinks so. Yet, like a cry into the dark, all of fifty years later, we still hear the lyrics of Chambawumba's song Tubthumping.
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