Not to mention they would have starved to death, and died in a pile of their own feces, had Christian Churches from miles around not banded together to provide all these dumb fucks with food and latrines because they brought NOTHING with them and the "organizers" hadn't planned anything beyond "hur, dur, lets tell everyone about a big concert thing and see what happens!"
It took a massive, spontaneous humanitarian effort to keep these idiots alive. The whole story is just one bizarre conglomeration of occurrences.
Totally. My "idea" of ideology is relatively narrow: respecting and defending the entire Constitution, America First, law and order, do the right thing, Golden Rule, prosperity and liberty and abundance over communism and feewings, equal justice over "social justice", responsibility over welfare, EQUALITY over racial or religious—e.g., black or islamic—supremacy. Giving over taking. Live and let live. Free adults in a free society are free to do as they please without infringing on the rights of others. Trump uber alles. (That's for you, libbies.)
By contrast, music is broad and vast and varied and complex and amazing and fun to play.
I can't hate Hendrix or Morrison or Joplin, to name just a few, just because they were flaming gooey liberals. I could if they were pedophiles. But that isn't a political ideology. I have to comparmentalize, because I love certain types of music too much to cut them loose based on political ideology. I went to see Heart three times—and each time, they were not even the headliner. Because they ROCKED in concert. A vast continent of classic rock was created by left wingers, it's just a fact of life. I can't just listen to Nugent and Derringer all day. :)
From where we stand now, Joplin, Morrison, Hendrix, Bowie, the Stones, the Beatles--they look like giants. We have assembly-line soft-porn pop tarts. THEY could rock the planet but also had poetic imaginations, they actually explored new mental worlds. They were mostly self-indulgent as hell, including when it came to drugs, but there's even something heroic about that--in a Byronic Romantic way. And they often used psychedelics the way Terence McKenna used them--not to get high so much as to experiment and explore their minds.
When I think of, e.g., Jennifer Lopez with nothing to offer but her shaking booty, the glitzy regimented choreography to cover up the emptiness of of the music... Ah, well, I geeze, I geeze...
EDIT: You mention Heart. I saw Ann Wilson in concert, and she was damn good. But. Then. Came. JEFF BECK...
This is pretty much the case with any peaceful movement. Everyone like to point to Ghandi as proof that peaceful protest works. Yeah when a couple armies are standing right behind you guarding your ass.
Not to mention they would have starved to death, and died in a pile of their own feces, had Christian Churches from miles around not banded together to provide all these dumb fucks with food and latrines because they brought NOTHING with them and the "organizers" hadn't planned anything beyond "hur, dur, lets tell everyone about a big concert thing and see what happens!"
It took a massive, spontaneous humanitarian effort to keep these idiots alive. The whole story is just one bizarre conglomeration of occurrences.
Or maybe they would have just left early and everyone would have been better off.
I know—I'm bummed too that I couldn't go :)
LOL sounds like you're into music more than ideology
Totally. My "idea" of ideology is relatively narrow: respecting and defending the entire Constitution, America First, law and order, do the right thing, Golden Rule, prosperity and liberty and abundance over communism and feewings, equal justice over "social justice", responsibility over welfare, EQUALITY over racial or religious—e.g., black or islamic—supremacy. Giving over taking. Live and let live. Free adults in a free society are free to do as they please without infringing on the rights of others. Trump uber alles. (That's for you, libbies.)
By contrast, music is broad and vast and varied and complex and amazing and fun to play.
I can't hate Hendrix or Morrison or Joplin, to name just a few, just because they were flaming gooey liberals. I could if they were pedophiles. But that isn't a political ideology. I have to comparmentalize, because I love certain types of music too much to cut them loose based on political ideology. I went to see Heart three times—and each time, they were not even the headliner. Because they ROCKED in concert. A vast continent of classic rock was created by left wingers, it's just a fact of life. I can't just listen to Nugent and Derringer all day. :)
From where we stand now, Joplin, Morrison, Hendrix, Bowie, the Stones, the Beatles--they look like giants. We have assembly-line soft-porn pop tarts. THEY could rock the planet but also had poetic imaginations, they actually explored new mental worlds. They were mostly self-indulgent as hell, including when it came to drugs, but there's even something heroic about that--in a Byronic Romantic way. And they often used psychedelics the way Terence McKenna used them--not to get high so much as to experiment and explore their minds.
When I think of, e.g., Jennifer Lopez with nothing to offer but her shaking booty, the glitzy regimented choreography to cover up the emptiness of of the music... Ah, well, I geeze, I geeze...
EDIT: You mention Heart. I saw Ann Wilson in concert, and she was damn good. But. Then. Came. JEFF BECK...
This is pretty much the case with any peaceful movement. Everyone like to point to Ghandi as proof that peaceful protest works. Yeah when a couple armies are standing right behind you guarding your ass.
The organizers were after the scratch, just as you'd expect.