Newsflash: High Lonesome Controls The Weather
My old friend at tired fools, linking his (rather disturbing) suicide obsession with his bad-science obsession, has blogged a study that says country music may
nurture a suicidal mood through its concerns with problems common in the suicidal population, such as marital discord, alcohol abuse, and alienation from work.
Something makes me think that this is correlation, not causality. I bet that you could discover a correlation between income and musical tastes, and income and suicide. Country often tells true stories of (mostly white) working class people at the edge of American society. And I’d bet big money such people have a naturally looser hold on the mortal coil than Brad and Becky SUV living in their midtown brownstone.
Country music could be correlated to tornado damage too, I’ll bet. But you’d better have a look at the build quality of house trailers before saying that George and Hank are behind GOP Weather Control.
