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I might have been unfair to T.S. Eliot. I interpreted him as being pretentious in the Shakespearean Rag part of The Waste Land. Shakespeare is Good Art, the Shakespearean Rag is Bad Art, and the latter is replacing and overwriting the former as part of the downfall of society. But I read some other interpretations of that part, and different people had different takes on what Eliot actually meant. E.g. the husband can’t concentrate because he doesn’t really love his wife.

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Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk
Carjack an old lady at a red light . . .

Well, try that in a small town
See how far ya make it down the road

—Jason Aldean

A Black truck driver named Gideon recently had an experience in a sundown town when he was delivering a load in Vidor, Texas. In a TikTok video, he explained that everybody he knew in Texas told him, “Do not go to Vidor.” But he had a load to deliver the next morning so he chugged through. Before he arrived to drop off his load he describes seeing, “a doll of a Black man wrapped in a Confederate flag hanging from a tree by his neck.”
—NewsOne