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Thread #59418 Message #3762087
Posted By: Donuel
31-Dec-15 - 05:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Spoken like a true fellow idealist who naturally worries.
The professional idealists of the left over baby boomer generation of WWII know that the problem of how susceptible we are as a species to the lure of strong arm authority and Military Congressional Complexes.
I used to think if we are so easily hypnotized by the evil it should be easy to hypnotize for the good.
Then I found out that it is a hard sell to convince others that reasonable poverty for the greater good and all weapon production will suck the life from you, your family and the world.
In 1970 if you wandered around Times Square on New Years eve you would hear cells of music groups overlapping every twenty feet.
It was all about the crowd and you were part of it with friends or all alone. Slowly the Times Square experience was sold more as a spectator sport and now concert going ticket holders under extreme security.
Most recently the crowd is evolving into a unspoken mass fear of being a terrorist target.
Be free, make your own music, if authorities ban personal expression defy the authorities and dance like Amos says.
We don't celebrate just time but the possibility of Joy.
Happy New Year.