Joan Baez was once young and pretty. Those things work with the left. The hard work is done on the right. It will never be enough. Who is gonna take the time to read 1100 pages of Atlas Shrugged?
The song title has to borrow from the phrase there but for the grace of God go I. It’s without the word God. It also suggests It could be us in those circumstances-we have no ability to get ourselves out of it. Fact is we do. The right has more faith in life.
You’re right. Phil Ochs didn’t see a way out so he offed himself-cowardly.
Many minds are so closed that even reading Atlas Shrugged doesn’t penetrate. Years ago, my wife and I discussed The Fountainhead with a Democrat friend (this is before Dems went completely nuts) who had just read the book. It was an eye-opening diagnostic.
Though an intelligent person, she was so emotionally committed to the leftist mind set that she just couldn’t grasp Rand’s intent (which you’d think was possible even while disagreeing with it). She inverted the characters, perceiving the creative Howard Roark as the bad guy, and the talentless sponge Peter Keating and the destructive Ellsworth Toohey as the heroes. From such a starting point, there is no way she could get the larger point.
Emotion is a powerful sales tool, and this is why the Left is terrified of Donald Trump, who blatantly appeals to national feeling. The Dems want to the R’s to stay in their role as dry rationalists.
Only those of us who don't need to read it.
I read it. But...but...it's been said that Russians use 50 words when 1 will do. That's pretty much demonstrated in Atlas Shrugged. Great thinking, but geez, too wordy.
It was only 1100? Felt like twice that. At least.
(I understand all tools don't have to be pretty, just useful).
‘Joan Baez was once young and pretty.’
she was okay to look at; but her voice was remarkable...
listen to her version of the old Irish ballad ‘Silkie’ and you’ll see for your selves...