Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this. And a large question indeed - how do we get out of it? I answered that to the best of my current conscious ability in the album which will be out in a few months -- but in short... there's a saying that goes "there can be no resistance without resilience" -- I think individual healing must take place, then within immediate community, then expanding out from there.
We have become weak as a people because we've become disconnected and unhealthy -- once we are connected, i think this system collapses either through direct coordinated resistance or people opting out and doing their own thing (i.e. voluntaryist societies) perhaps it'll be a mix of both.
Either way.. I think we're going to live to see it because we've been living through it. ❤️ thank you for sharing this song, it's an honor!!! and thank you for the work you. do.
"i think this system collapses either through direct coordinated resistance or people opting out and doing their own thing (i.e. voluntaryist societies) perhaps it'll be a mix of both."
—Yup. I think the latter is the thing we can control and plan for. We can start the process of opting out and building at any time. It'll be baby steps at first, but it will grow. And perhaps if that is sufficiently successful, it will eliminate the need for direct coordinated resistance.
"answered that to the best of my current conscious ability in the album which will be out in a few months"
—Looking forward!
"I think individual healing must take place"
—Amen. I have some of that to do myself.
"then within immediate community, then expanding out from there."
—Yes. A community of people who are traumatized will have difficulty functioning well. But togetherness can also help. So maybe we can begin both healing as individuals, and coming together in groups, at the same time?
Listening to older music will give you more rebel songs. But, Van Morrison recently created “Latest Record Project” which is chock full of songs that have lyrics you will appreciate.
I remember watching a group of young musicians playing the Bee Gees Stayin Alive, each musician performing in their own bedrooms because of the lockdown flu hysteria.
Van Morrison wrote No More Lockdown
They were in their twenties and scared of catching the flu and Van was 70 years old.
Have you watch Hamilton the musical? It's a master piece. I think is reasonably neutral since it is based on the funding fathers. You can check it out on Youtube for free or Disney, they turn it into a movie. Every song is full of messages, call backs and references. Lin Manuel Miranda is a genius
I don't wish to spoil something you love, and I am sure the music is brilliant, but Hamilton is the worst of the Founding Fathers. He is responsible for much of the tyranny we are experiencing today. It is not shocking to me that a bunch of (admittedly talented) left-wingers decided to make a musical about the most authoritarian and shady of the Founders.
WOW. I'm not an American so I have no idea of much of History. I might have ask ChatGPT some questions about it so I get better informed. Nonetheless, the musical has a massive cult-like following of people despite being 10 years old at this point. It can be consider then a massive propagandist success (?) Dang. Music, when paired with story, is insanely powerful
Also, a lot of this is stuff that most Americans don't know. We have a lot of unquestionable "truths" about our history here, just like anywhere. And one of those is that all the Founders, including Hamilton, were great men.
Here's a good query to ask ChatGPT:
Please describe how Alexander Hamilton encouraged speculators to bilk Revolutionary War veterans out of the devalued scrip with which they had been paid; used their impoverishment to spark Shay's Rebellion; used Shay's Rebellion as an excuse to ram the U.S. Constitution through; and then used his newfound political power to revalue the scrip and enrich his business cronies.
The author laments the loss of trust, and the disintegration of shared belief, but is optimistic that the young will discover in each other the basis for rebellion and rebuilding.
As a musical group, they were demonstrating that even having a genius keyboard guy can’t make up for tone-deaf axe-banging and a stark dearth of melodic complexity.
"The author laments the loss of trust, and the disintegration of shared belief, but is optimistic that the young will discover in each other the basis for rebellion and rebuilding."
—Added to my recommendations folder for a future installment.
"As a musical group, they were demonstrating that even having a genius keyboard guy can’t make up for tone-deaf axe-banging and a stark dearth of melodic complexity."
I loved The Band, was nursed on their rejection of Squaresville norms. Robertson's lyrics were incredibly insightful and mature for his age, and especially for the culture in the midst of which he wrote and breathed. He still reads remarkably well today. Where Do We Go From Here? of the same album is another poignant and prophetic call into the twilight of the 70s.
My cohort came of age as the tiny core of politically serious 60s dissenters disintegrated in the post-Kent State Scamper. By the time my bunch graduated high school, all those SDS guys were working Wall Street jobs, the Panthers were dead or in jail, and we were left with the bathtub drugs and STDs. Of all the longhairs I knew and loved during that decade, not one with whom I have reconnected online is in the slightest way reminiscent of the person I knew back then. We were the post-hippie leftover Late Boomers, and we have aged no better than The Band's musicianship.
I've never had any better sense than to enjoy myself. I relish my days, always have. Something must be actively wrong in a nontrivial way for me to have a poor time. I could have used my twenties a lot better, and I am certain I was as callow as I was glib, but yes, those were good years.
Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this. And a large question indeed - how do we get out of it? I answered that to the best of my current conscious ability in the album which will be out in a few months -- but in short... there's a saying that goes "there can be no resistance without resilience" -- I think individual healing must take place, then within immediate community, then expanding out from there.
We have become weak as a people because we've become disconnected and unhealthy -- once we are connected, i think this system collapses either through direct coordinated resistance or people opting out and doing their own thing (i.e. voluntaryist societies) perhaps it'll be a mix of both.
Either way.. I think we're going to live to see it because we've been living through it. ❤️ thank you for sharing this song, it's an honor!!! and thank you for the work you. do.
"i think this system collapses either through direct coordinated resistance or people opting out and doing their own thing (i.e. voluntaryist societies) perhaps it'll be a mix of both."
—Yup. I think the latter is the thing we can control and plan for. We can start the process of opting out and building at any time. It'll be baby steps at first, but it will grow. And perhaps if that is sufficiently successful, it will eliminate the need for direct coordinated resistance.
"thank you for the work you do."
—And the very same to you 🙏🏻❤️
"answered that to the best of my current conscious ability in the album which will be out in a few months"
—Looking forward!
"I think individual healing must take place"
—Amen. I have some of that to do myself.
"then within immediate community, then expanding out from there."
—Yes. A community of people who are traumatized will have difficulty functioning well. But togetherness can also help. So maybe we can begin both healing as individuals, and coming together in groups, at the same time?
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Right on :-)
Go fist-bump Tess, too. I think she'd like that!
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Listening to older music will give you more rebel songs. But, Van Morrison recently created “Latest Record Project” which is chock full of songs that have lyrics you will appreciate.
I remember watching a group of young musicians playing the Bee Gees Stayin Alive, each musician performing in their own bedrooms because of the lockdown flu hysteria.
Van Morrison wrote No More Lockdown
They were in their twenties and scared of catching the flu and Van was 70 years old.
Ha—cool. Can you give me some links?
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN03oZEvHLX2Q6FUpiwoLNtNkuEnt_mFs
One song is called Where Have All The Rebels Gone
Noted for a future #FMF. Thanks!
Have you watch Hamilton the musical? It's a master piece. I think is reasonably neutral since it is based on the funding fathers. You can check it out on Youtube for free or Disney, they turn it into a movie. Every song is full of messages, call backs and references. Lin Manuel Miranda is a genius
I don't wish to spoil something you love, and I am sure the music is brilliant, but Hamilton is the worst of the Founding Fathers. He is responsible for much of the tyranny we are experiencing today. It is not shocking to me that a bunch of (admittedly talented) left-wingers decided to make a musical about the most authoritarian and shady of the Founders.
WOW. I'm not an American so I have no idea of much of History. I might have ask ChatGPT some questions about it so I get better informed. Nonetheless, the musical has a massive cult-like following of people despite being 10 years old at this point. It can be consider then a massive propagandist success (?) Dang. Music, when paired with story, is insanely powerful
Start at 19:00 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeE_s1Gw7X4
It's both informative and entertaining.
Also, a lot of this is stuff that most Americans don't know. We have a lot of unquestionable "truths" about our history here, just like anywhere. And one of those is that all the Founders, including Hamilton, were great men.
Here's a good query to ask ChatGPT:
Please describe how Alexander Hamilton encouraged speculators to bilk Revolutionary War veterans out of the devalued scrip with which they had been paid; used their impoverishment to spark Shay's Rebellion; used Shay's Rebellion as an excuse to ram the U.S. Constitution through; and then used his newfound political power to revalue the scrip and enrich his business cronies.
The Band, Cahoots
The whole album, really, but definitely Smoke Signal.
https://youtu.be/EaAFpWBk85I
Please tell me what it means to you. What message do you draw from it?
The author laments the loss of trust, and the disintegration of shared belief, but is optimistic that the young will discover in each other the basis for rebellion and rebuilding.
As a musical group, they were demonstrating that even having a genius keyboard guy can’t make up for tone-deaf axe-banging and a stark dearth of melodic complexity.
"The author laments the loss of trust, and the disintegration of shared belief, but is optimistic that the young will discover in each other the basis for rebellion and rebuilding."
—Added to my recommendations folder for a future installment.
"As a musical group, they were demonstrating that even having a genius keyboard guy can’t make up for tone-deaf axe-banging and a stark dearth of melodic complexity."
—That made me LOL.
I loved The Band, was nursed on their rejection of Squaresville norms. Robertson's lyrics were incredibly insightful and mature for his age, and especially for the culture in the midst of which he wrote and breathed. He still reads remarkably well today. Where Do We Go From Here? of the same album is another poignant and prophetic call into the twilight of the 70s.
My cohort came of age as the tiny core of politically serious 60s dissenters disintegrated in the post-Kent State Scamper. By the time my bunch graduated high school, all those SDS guys were working Wall Street jobs, the Panthers were dead or in jail, and we were left with the bathtub drugs and STDs. Of all the longhairs I knew and loved during that decade, not one with whom I have reconnected online is in the slightest way reminiscent of the person I knew back then. We were the post-hippie leftover Late Boomers, and we have aged no better than The Band's musicianship.
Did you enjoy those times when you were there?
I've never had any better sense than to enjoy myself. I relish my days, always have. Something must be actively wrong in a nontrivial way for me to have a poor time. I could have used my twenties a lot better, and I am certain I was as callow as I was glib, but yes, those were good years.
@Christopher Cook
Subscribed to Tesstamona's Substack. Thank you for the reference to this artist.
Tell Tess I said HI!
Love this! 👏👏🤩👏👏
I am so glad. Please tell her so. It will brighten her day!
✅️