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Thread #154189 Message #3617232
Posted By: Greg F.
10-Apr-14 - 10:21 AM
Thread Name: ADD: Luci Baines & Mitchell Trio topical songs
Subject: RE: ADD: Luci Baines & Mitchell Trio topical songs
I don't quite get Greg F's allegation of "presentism." Wonder what he's talking about.
Didja look it up, Joe?
I hate to use Blog-O-Pedia, but its easily accessible, so for your brnefit See: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Presentism and pay particular attention to the sections about "reading primary documents outside of their historical context", "allowing present-day moral judgments to creep into characterizations of the historical figures" and "characterizing the actions or decisions of historical figures as if they had access to all the information we have now in the present".
You seem to have forgotten - assuming you ever knew -what the country was going through during the 1960's.
In Re: political satire- better styled political COMMENTARY** - what's your take on Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Patrick Sky, Pete Seeger & etc? Is THEIR work "mean-spirited" as well.
** I'm sure you must remember Tom Lehrer's comment that political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.