New World Notes 234 - Things Fall Apart - Free Audiobook

30-minute radio program for August 28, 2012. The economy, American political democracy, the climate, the whole ecosystem--all seem to be collapsing at once. In a poem of 1920, W.B. Yeats noted, "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold." The show features a great routine on the very subject by George Carlin (early 1990s), music by James McMurtry ("Ruins of the Realm"), Yeats's poem, and somewhat humorous reflections by K.D. http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com/ . Permanent link to the entry for this installment: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com/2012/08/things-fall-apart.html . For an ordered listing of all "New World Notes" programs archived here, copy and paste this URL into your browser's address window: http://archive.org/search.php?query=%22New%20World%20Notes%22%20AND%20collection%3Aopensource\_audio&sort=-date