Today, this is my new old anthem [Starts at 15 seconds in]:
"A self-ordained professor’s tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
“Equality,” I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now"
Once I was the least radical of all my radical friends. Now I'm the most radical by so many orders of magnitude we don't even speak of it when we speak at all.
I'm still here. Where did all the rest of them go?
Are they so ashamed of what they've built or given permission to build that they're hiding out in the better restaurants discussing how much to pay their Hispanic servants?
Did they sell out or just buy in?
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed
Graveyards, false gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough, what else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only
-- Bob Dylan | It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
I swear there are some days when I just want to stand on top of the highest mountain in America and shout:
"All in free! All in free! Come out, come out, wherever you are!"
Posted by Vanderleun at July 23, 2010 2:40 PM
“We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Plato
Many of us stand with you in the light.
M
AWESOME
Posted by: reliapundit at July 23, 2010 8:18 PMThe socialist dreams of the Sixties and early Seventies struck the shoals of reality as we departed our parents' homes, our cozy college dormitories, and our places in the mud before the sound stage at White Lake. But we never acknowledged that they'd been holed, much less that they'd sunk.
We grew up, but not all of us grew wise.
God bless you, Gerard.
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at July 24, 2010 2:53 AMI love that the fellas are all in some iteration of sharp jacket...except old Shakey.
"Look out Mama there's a white boat comin' up the river."
Thanks, Gerald.
Posted by: tao9 at July 24, 2010 4:36 AMI'd like to think that's been my anthem for a while now, or so I tell my kids.
"I was so much older then..."
God bless you, Gerard.
How many times have I said this over the past half dozen years, "Get out of my head!"?
One of your best. Thank you!
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) at July 24, 2010 2:48 PMGerard:
Chesterton. ORTHODOXY.
There's a chapter called "The Eternal Revolution". But read the whole thing.
I have, twice or thrice now, and will continue recommending it to my radical friends until I am whisked away.
Posted by: See-Dubya at July 24, 2010 9:53 PMI'm a radical too. I voted for Goldwater.
Dylan has always been an eloquent anti-establishment voice. The addled hippies didn't realize the biting sarcasm. He mocked the conformity upon which they insisted. He was excoriating PC before the term was coined.
Posted by: Roy Lofquist at July 25, 2010 5:35 PMI'm still too much younger than most of the readers on this thread, even though I'm not much older, now.
Posted by: Jewel at July 26, 2010 6:36 AM'When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. The notorious failure of reforming and revolutionary movements in the long run may as a rule be found due to their incorrigible superficiality.'
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