Philippic

Been Lou Adler Barry Sadlered

This is Lou Adler's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in front of the Hard Rock Cafe.

(The chain, not The Doors' , although coincidentally their star is a few feet from Lou's.)

A legendary music producer, he worked with many artists - like The Mamas and the Papas and Carole King - and also produced The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 

He is name dropped in this Bob Dylan homage/pastiche by Simon and Garfunkel, "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamarad Into Submission)." Which continues...

I been mothered, fathered, aunt and uncled
Roy Halleed and Art Garfunkled
I just discovered somebody’s tapped my phone.

Bob Dylan had an FBI file in the 1960s, and one of most famous songs mentions the phone being tapped. (Although both that song and this one came out in 1965, which raises issues of who-heard-what-first that will need later investigation.) Of note here is the realization that, for a good long time, the idea of one's phone being tapped wasn't a major fear. From perhaps 1974 until 2001, it stopped being an issue of concern. People who thought the CIA was listening in on them were derided as tinfoil-hat kooks. In "The Puzzle Palace" (1982), while the likelihood of the NSA having such capability was raised, there wasn't outrage over it. Various protections grew up over the time (starting roughly when these songs were released) that made it clear that the government was to tap phones for legitimate criminal investigations...only. 

Or so we thought. Eventually, the NSA bubbled back into people's consciousness, and now it's assumed your phone is not only tapped, but able to be played back any time for any reason.

 The Turning-based explanation would be that the First was a time when still-strong institutions were able to act with impunity, while their weakening in the Second made their actions unacceptable through the end of the freedom-loving Third. To check this, of course, one would have to look at previous Thirds to see what the equivalent reduction in government power might have been before the Civil War or the American Revolution - and the Glorious Revolution is probably worth checking as well.

Now that the Fourth is back, strong institutions will be doing what they can to keep the power they have. Unless it turns out that the Crisis is about grabbing power back.