No Rock 'N' Roll Fun
The banning of the popular Festival of Fire signals that the Iranian regime's days are numbered./ Tom Stoppard proposed the splendid notion, in his 2006 play , that nothing subverts totalitarian systems like the pure Dionysian force of fun. When repressive regimes try to stamp out fun, you know their days are numbered. In it's the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, which was so utterly perplexed by rock music's infectious spontaneity that the system crumbled. All those lugubriously rigid apparatchiks were shivered to pieces by ...
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