Back To The Fab 50s - Ed Naha looks at Globalization

[babylonsister]

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Back To The Fab 50s - Ed Naha looks at Globalization
Written by Ed Naha
Monday, 06 August 2007


I personally want to thank the geniuses that came up with the concepts of globalization and the out-sourcing of American jobs. Who knew that globalization could be so retro? Why, this year alone, China has done its best to bring America back to the Fabulous Fifties.

No, I’m not talking about the squeaky clean 1950s found on “Leave It To Beaver” or “Ozzie and Harriet.” I’m talking about the REAL 1950s, wherein electric appliances blew up like Vesuvius, lawn chairs would eat their owners, frozen food contained more chemicals than a Gilbert Chemistry Set, toys could kill ya, everything was flammable, fast-food burgers had fur and pesticides were considered one of the major food groups. It was an, er, experimental time.

Granted, America today gets a lot of shoddy and/or dangerous imports on the cheap from a lot of countries but, this year, China seems to be going for the gold.

Americans first became concerned when countless brands of cat and dog food made, in part, with Chinese ingredients proved fatal. That, unfortunately, was just the tip of the iceberg.

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Until we get a government in place that truly represents its people both in terms of their well-being and their economic stability, what can we do?

Heck! Lets all put on an oldies station, chug a pint of paint, grab a tin toy with ragged edges and run after the mosquito truck as it sprays out DDT. Let’s party like it’s 1959!

Whoah! Check it out! Glow-in-the-dark hot dogs!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Holy Shit.

Ed Naha. right up there with Richard Meltzer, Sandy Pearlman and Lester Bangs as One of The Guys Who Invented Rock Journalism.

[TomInTib]

2. I read him quite often.

You can catch him at http://smirkingchimp.com/

Great site, insightful and intelligent reads.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. It's funny. I never met Ed.

I knew Sandy real well, ran into Richard a few times, just about beshat myself when I walked into Rick Derringer's house one day(I worked for the little guy) and Lester was sitting at the diningroom table(Where I used to sit and flirt with Patti D'arbanville, all the time. Now THAT'S some real fun!).

Being an aspiring man of letters and a constant reader of rock journalism, I blabbered to Lester about the one line he wrote that has stayed with me forever and I thought, was cooler than anything I had ever read. It was a review of Linda Ronstadt:

"She has a mouth set in a constant moue', so as to suck a nectarine dry by remote control"

Lester, as usual was drunk. He didn't remember it, but he thanked me. And then knocked back another one.

The story of my life in rock n' roll, in digest form.

[TomInTib]

4. Great catch, 'sister!

I love Ed Naha.

[Democrats_win]

5. Excellent article. What happened to quality and the societal loss when when you mfg. junk?

Doesn't anyone remember in the late 80s and 90s when American manufacturing found quality and they preached the idea that making junk was a big waste? Now we have American companies going to China to make junk on a scale never before seen. Ed Naha nailed this one. We've gone back to the days before companies understood the importance of quality.

I wonder if the big CEOs honor their fathers (always do a good job) when they produce nothing but junk. Is that American or even Chinese?