The Stuttering of the Kids
In the early 1980s there was a lot of idiocy about the imminent arrival of the year 1984 and what it would mean for our society. A lot of brain donors were doing their damnedest to revise history by making Orwell's '1984' not be about Left totalitarianism (despite that Orwell himself said that's what it was about) but about corporate fascism or some such nonsense. So, I wrote (actually in 1983, but I chose to date it in 1984 for obvious reasons) the ten-piece suite, 'The Stuttering of the Kids,' the title coming from a verse in a Pete Townshend song for reasons having nothing to do with the substance of either work.
Jan 1984
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