“New Frontiers and New World Orders” – August 26th, 2014 10:27 pm

One of my favourite albums is “The Nightfly” by Donald Fagen.

(It came out a year after Steely Dan called it quits, but I was too young to be broken up about it.)

The song “New Frontier” was Fagen’s way of needling the nuclear war fear-mongers of the day. (…remember Ultravox’s “Dancing With Tears In My Eyes”?… man, I used to eat that shit up.)

As I watch the video for “New Frontier”, I’m reminded that the song was as far removed from the video’s “Red Scare” theme as we are now to those golden days of good, early 80’s tunes.

JFK spoke of a New Frontier. These days, I’m still trying to get my head around George HW Bush’s comments on a New World Order.

Funny, but I don’t see or hear many people around these days guffawing at the prospects of bombs flying overhead somewhere in the not-so-distant future.

And dammit, I don’t even have a bomb shelter.