You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing you have no accurate assessment - you can't make an accurate assessment of where you fit and why. I consider our moving frontier in space as the anecdote to that downward trend.
The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.