If you were a young man like Donald Trump in the 50s and 60s, you were out for action. No politics existed for you because the blabbering about the evils of communism on the limited media of the day said with one voice that in America you were on your own and it was up to you to get going. You had to either be, culturally speaking, hypocritically pious out in the middle of America in Kansas or some place like it using your mind and spirit to make money while you mouthed to everyone some religious and moral blather so generalized that it could not be true; or else you had to be like Trump, again culturally speaking, a New York hipster looking for a new score every day in bed or on Wall Street. Language? A pious Kansas hypocrite said nothing and a New York hipster said everything because talk of any kind and action of all kinds were life and if you were hip you were silent and inactive as little as possible because talk of all kinds led to scores of all kinds. In 2016, 50 years since the hipster heydays, an aging hipster like Trump feels power only in the same talk and action originating in himself that once blasted him up to extraordinary profits like the rocket that went in the 60s to the moon. He flew past the regular moons reached by ordinary businessmen to the planet where his enormous bank balance allowed him to shine where only the hippest of the hipsters shone because they braved everything possible beyond the ordinary bounds of America and left that America far behind them. Trump can not talk the superficial and hypocritical platitudes intelligently served up on the media which Americans flattened and smoothed out culturally like wet clothes on an ironing board are forced to accept everywhere within themselves except in their hearts as real talk. Politically correct America is afraid of its own soul. It looks for action only on the surface of its being. Its talk is placid. Donald Trump can not talk that talk. The 50s and 60s are over and his campaign for the presidency is also over.
Daniel McNeill’s novella The End of All Beginnings is available at
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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right
from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it
can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected
and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards
one liberating ending to all its beginnings.
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