myrmepropagandist on Nostr: Thinking back? it’s shocking Hamilton was a real musical— and a popular one! ...
Thinking back? it’s shocking Hamilton was a real musical— and a popular one! It’s almost too transparent with its weird liberal post-racial subtexts. The entire concept? a hot mess. But no one said “no. we are not doing this!”
The American zeitgeist had a hunger in that moment. Like John Henry & Joe Magarac… & the boy George Washington who could not tell a lie— we desperately needed a less ugly history for what looked to be (in the eyes of liberals) a nation that might just be cool after all.
The American zeitgeist had a hunger in that moment. Like John Henry & Joe Magarac… & the boy George Washington who could not tell a lie— we desperately needed a less ugly history for what looked to be (in the eyes of liberals) a nation that might just be cool after all.