top ten artefacts of the twentieth century

Star Trek IV

This movie is everything that mankind could be or what mankind could do to themselves if they try hard enough.
Like A Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan summarises all poetry, all music and his own personal journey into 6minutes of vinyl perfection while the great Mike Bloomfield plays the ultimate sideman.
Welcome To The Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut puts together a series of short stories that analyses and encapsulates the human condition as no other writer quite managed managed to do before or since.
Lockheed F104
This aircraft was the acme of aeronautical design in the 1960's as the insights and technology gave men the ability to produce a whole new generation of devices to kill each other.
The Simulacra
Philip K Dicks magnum opus where he brought together philosophy, psychotherapy and the future of the world into one novel that defies any literary pigeonhole.
The Wild Bunch
This movie marks the transition of the world economy from the horse to the car and how some men confront their mortality and their place in the scheme of things.
Greenmantle
john Buchan aka Lords Tweedsmuir produced a style of writing that was copied by all and that is no exaggeration, all the others. Read him and then Hemingway, Chandler, Steinbeck and Louis L'Amour.
The String Band Project

On this vinyl album a whole bunch of city bred music enthusiasts succeed in recreating the music of Appalachia and the string band tradition and show the way for others to learn to play their own music in a world dominated by a monolithic Music Industry. This is home made music at its very best.

From Dawn To Decadence

Jacques Barzuns Take on how mankind has elevated itself from little more than educated animals to jaded sophisticates and how they have have put the very existence of the world at risk by the demands of insatiable greedy people who have control of the productive apparatus.

Freud Rediscovered

New York journalist Lucy Freeman has captured the essence of Sigmund Freud's discoveries that are mankinds only hope but as truth is unlimited supply but very limited demand she is largely ignored but the time will come when his insights will be necessary for the continued existence of all humanity.

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