Country music in Nashville is also run by…the Jews. Even Nascar.

I’m with you there on country music. Shame what happened there. But that has no connection to Alpert, a harmless goof, who found a career feeding the seemingly endless appetite of wealthy flakes for spiritual bromides. There will be others.

But country music, damn, it used to be good.

Though even at that some it depends on when you start the clock [ie, at the peak of postwar Corporate America Gray Flannel Suit Man, or earlier], your preferences, and your approach to individualism.

America is much more individualistic and weird in many ways, but it’s also getting conformist in that way one does with anyone who doesn’t have a freak flag to fly and would rather keep it personal if they did. Options for a more conservative temperament and lifestyle do come in for their share of ridicule now and then, and increasingly.

What mode of life gets urinated on more by our modern pop culture than a two parent, uniracial, middle class family living in a suburban home with 1-3 natural born genetically descendant children? They’re all squares and fascists and clingers and closet pedos, if I understand the message of our entertainment industry correctly.

That and much of the cultural and regional diversity has faded, become commoditized, or become homogenized into more limited forms packaged for mass consumption. Look at what happened to country music, now just a variation of pop.