Runaway American Dream
Show Notes
New York Streets Are Nearly Empty, but Speeding Tickets Have Doubled.
Speeders, Drag Racers Behaving Badly in Pandemic, Tempted by Empty Streets.
With fewer cars on the road, motorists are shifting into high gear — driving 100 mph or more.
Coronavirus Doesn't Deter Massive Dirt Bike Ride On NYC Streets & Sidewalks.
Man performs wheelies on motorbike before careering into crowd.
Whoosh! That Car That Just Soared by Might Be Heading for the Coast.
A Team Exploited the Coronavirus Pandemic to Set a 26-Hour 38-Minute Cross-Country Record.
Team allegedly sets new 'Cannonball Run' record on empty highways during coronavirus lockdowns.
Revel suspends its electric moped service in NYC after two people are killed.
Daniel Boone by Arthur Guiterman.
They Live By Night (1948), directed by Nicholas Ray.
“Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?”
”Whadda you got?”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road (Audiobook).
Jack Kerouac's Famous Scroll, 'On the Road' Again.
Chuck Berry performing Promised Land.
Freud Personality Theory.
Leon Festinger — Cognitive Dissonance.
Julian Rotter — Internal/External Locus of Control.
Apollonian/Dionysian Conflict.
Carl Jung on Hitler as Personification of the Wotan Archetype.
Motaur, Progressive Insurance Commercial, Herd.
Fredric Jameson, Future City.
"Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism."
John Gast, American Progress, 1872,
Oil on canvas.
An allegory of Manifest Destiny.
Revel wildposting, seen in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, about a half mile from the site of the first customer fatality in New York City. Several days later, the company suspended service in the city.
