Good post, Poppa Gator. The job of creative artists is to articulate in some powerful way what others are feeling, but have not yet articulated themselves. So the song signalled the change in progress...or was part of the change, as you suggest. Dylan's gift was to be the one there at the right time to put it into words and music for the rest of us.

As for those who were "not affected"...well, yeah! There are people who are remain unaffected by just about anything you could care to mention. I heard there was some guy who slept through the attack on Pearl Harbour. ;-) I have met more than a few people who've probably never had an original thought in their lives. Anything is possible when it comes to human beings.