Joe DePugh, the Little League teammate of Bruce Springsteen who inspired the rocker’s hit song “Glory Days,” a rousing, bittersweet anthem to their hardscrabble childhoods where time passed by “in the wink of a young girl’s eye,” died on Friday. He was 75.
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All that is left now is the toxic reality of its oligarchy, the suppurating wound of its rancid culture and poison of its politicians.
The American dream was a shared delusion.
Springsteen critiqued American society and it dysfunctions whilst also romaniticising it re it’s exceptionalism
He mythologised it
The beauty and the ugliness
For us America was almost a God, mythic in the imagination
A cruel and selfish God, but a God never the less