![]() ![]() Klosterman reminds us that Bush and Gore were interchangeable (they agreed on almost every issue), so it didn’t matter to the average person who won. This is also a perfect metaphor for how the decade was the last good one in human history – at least for now.) He defines the bookends as the Berlin Wall’s fall in 1989 and the World Trade Center’s fall in 2001. (By the way, 2000 isn’t in the Nineties in terms of date, but Klosterman is writing about the Nineties as a cultural period. The chapter on Perot is enlightening, as is the chapter on the 2000 election. I shouldn’t have Klosterman is wiser than that. I dreaded these chapters because I know my libertarian views don’t line up with Klosterman’s mainstream statist views, and I braced myself for tired “wasted votes” and “Perot/Nader cost him the election” stuff. ![]() So I will, taking cues from Klosterman’s topics in “The Nineties.” Politics It’s an outstanding book, maybe even his best, and it inspires me to analyze pop culture like he does. ![]()
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