Misc. : on the American Dream & the time of Inherent Vice

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut wrote:

>  In a letter, Hunter said this: in 1968, Bob Dylan, with the organization Eugene McCarthy had, could have garnered the support and votes that Clean Gene did........but by 1972, he would have gotten, maybe, 3% of the vote.
>

but Bob himself after his motorcycle mishap thinkingly withdrew himself
from consideration for that (political) type of leadership, and made strong,
cogent statements to that effect

furthermore, the Events of 1968 in the United States including what
happened to MLK and RFK cast a serious damper upon the winds of
political change

and the rejection of "within-the-system" change by the radical Left,
and the understandable but tragic rejection of patience and nonviolence
  by those who valued X over King
makes me want to write a pastiche song:

once there was a way to get back homeward,
once there was a crop of idealists willing to work within the system for change,
but the bricks were torn up from Main Street
where the neon madmen climbed
and the great ones fell so perfectly,
it all seemed so well timed
sleep pretty electorate do not cry
Oh God, Pride of Man!  Broken in the dust again...



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- "all is not fair in Love and Noir" - alice wellintown.