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 | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 7:22:04 mst
Comment ID: #1
Name: C Andrew
E-mail: ca4papen(at)mindspring.com
I don't know if the Wandervogel or the Bunde in Germany ever indulged in geo-grief or timber wailing, but one thing is certain. Their lines would have been straighter. (Or not...)
From Walter Laqueur, "Young Germany." The Wandervogel were "long-haired, untidy bacchants... strumming on their guitars their collective revolt against bourgeois respectability."
This conjures the ghost of Tom Lehrer's "Folk Song Army."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygMhtNQJ9M
And for those of you who prefer more primitive visual aids, as we say in the ed biz... The printed lyrics!
One type of song that has come into increasing prominence in recent months is the folk-song of protest. You have to admire people who sing these songs. It takes a certain amount of courage to get up in a coffee-house or a college auditorium and come out in favor of the things that everybody else in the audience is against like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on. The nicest thing about a protest song is that it makes you feel so good. I have a song here which I realise should be accompanied on a folk instrument in which category the piano does not alas qualify so imagine if you will that I am playing an 88 string guitar.
We are the Folk Song Army.
Everyone of us cares.
We all hate poverty, war, and injustice,
Unlike the rest of you squares.
There are innocuous folk songs.
Yeah, but we regard 'em with scorn.
The folks who sing 'em have no social conscience.
Why they don't even care if Jimmy Crack Corn.
If you feel dissatisfaction,
Strum your frustrations away.
Some people may prefer action,
But give me a folk song any old day.
The tune don't have to be clever,
And it don't matter if you put a coupla extra syllables into a line.
It sounds more ethnic if it ain't good English,
And it don't even gotta rhyme--excuse me--rhyne.
Remember the war against Franco?
That's the kind where each of us belongs.
Though he may have won all the battles,
We had all the good songs.
So join in the Folk Song Army,
Guitars are the weapons we bring
To the fight against poverty, war, and injustice.
Ready! Aim! Sing! |
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| Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 7:30:22 mst
Comment ID: #2
Name: Steve D'Ippolito
Seen on a bumper sticker many years ago:
"Earth First! We'll mine the other planets later." |
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| Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:38:07 mst
Comment ID: #3
Name: Rational Jenn
E-mail: rationaljenn(at)gmail.com
URL: http://rationaljenn.blogspot.com
Oh my. I started to watch the first video, but the kids were nearby. I had to turn it off because I was concerned about the harm watching it might cause them! |
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| Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:11:31 mst
Comment ID: #4
Name: PDS
E-mail: pdspds(at)gmail.com
Just another reason to hate hippies. |
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| Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 15:33:30 mst
Comment ID: #5
Name: John Harris
E-mail: john.harris00(at)gmail.com
Interesting how rationality works, isn't it?
To anyone with a thought in their head, these people are loony tons.
To them they are doing what is 'just' and 'right'
How soon until kids in schools go out and wail over trees?
John. |
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| Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 15:52:12 mst
Comment ID: #6
Name: Joshua L.
E-mail: joshualipana(at)yahoo.com
Good god. That was funny. |
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| Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 17:33:16 mst
Comment ID: #7
Name: Alec
They should cry for the innocent *humans* that Earth FIrst has crippled from the booby traps they set in the forest. |
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| Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 18:41:11 mst
Comment ID: #8
Name: C Andrew
E-mail: ca4papen(at)mindspring.com
There are no innocent humans. Except them, of course. Because, *Sob!*, They CARE! |
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| Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 11:20:23 mst
Comment ID: #9
Name: Lemuel
E-mail: synthesist(at)ymail.com
While I don't doubt or challenge the ideological roots of environmentalism, and at the risk of psychologizing, I think the wailing and crying is largely a put-on.
That, or these people have some significant mental or developmental problems.
If I knew these kinds of people, I don't think I would see them as intransigently devoted to "saving the earth," I'd think they needed some weapons-grade pharmaceuticals (assuming, of course, they weren't already abusing them). |
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