1/6/1934
Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion Car #2 is finished. 1/6/1966, Friday From The Complete Beatles: Yet more overdubbing onto the tape of "Penny Lane"...none of the instruments was taped pure...recorded at 47-1/2 cycles to speed up on replay. 1/6/1995 From the Brian Eno Diary: "I've never kept a diary past about 6 January (so I know a lot about the early Januaries of my life)." What a difference 55 years makes...from bouncy Beatles pop to the end of democracy in the US: 1/6/2022 Sunny and cold, 10 degrees 1/6@1. A very strange day. 9/11@1 felt much different. Half the country is celebrating and half wants to avoid it. A few years after 9/11 I wrote: "Forget September". I want to write one for January. What we didn't have in the first few years after 9/11 was social media. Jimmy Carter chilling op-ed in NYT with a stark warning about "losing democracy". I've read a few books on coups in history and it never crossed my mind that it could happen here. In fact, the idea that it could happen here has always been floated, but always dismissed as not being possible given the trillions of dollars the US has spent on nation building and protecting the American way of life since the 1940s. Carter is now 97, born in 1925. He was 16 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. By the time he was an adult, the US was well on its way to the present moment in terms of the fear and paranoia that drove geopolitics, and in which he was also involved in while he was president, including going along with the idea of arming the Mujahideen as a continuation of the militating against communism. Biden gives a commemoration speech, pulling no punches. Very risky in my view, but like Carter was averse to bold risks, or simply playing the game he never liked but felt forced to in extremis.
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