Wagner speaks about his own generation, and ambivalently praises it and laments it. "The booming sound" is a reference to the baby boomers. The generation who came of age under Nixon, who had many "deliberate monologues", but most certainly left the doing undone. They are screwing up today, and counting on the next generation to follow up on what they planted.
Wagner speaks about his own generation, and ambivalently praises it and laments it. "The booming sound" is a reference to the baby boomers. The generation who came of age under Nixon, who had many "deliberate monologues", but most certainly left the doing undone. They are screwing up today, and counting on the next generation to follow up on what they planted.