Posted on 09/09/2007 12:02:40 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
A lot of ‘60s icons are turning out to not fit that mold. Hendrix was anti-communist, and apparently going anti-war was just not something that interested Morrison. I’m sure Hayden would be glad to write more flowery words for Huff n Puff to explain why.
Tom Hayden has always been one heck of a clown.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
In a sense. But America still has to survive until the death of the last of these hideous boomer totalitarians. It'll be another 30 or so years until the last of them goes to their reward. In the meantime, they will do as much damage as they can.
And damage they will do. They control the media, the universities, primary and secondary education, and the entertainment industries. They control half of our political establishement. HRC is the just the next (and maybe scariest) one to take her run at power and destruction.
So yes. The ideas are yesterday. But they are reaching the peak of their power right now.
What is interesting is that his experiences on the road happened prior to the advent of the Interstate Highway System. Another writer who wrote on the road was Ernie Pyle prior to his more famous WWII writings. He wrote travel stories on the road. Back then, without the Interstate Highway System, travel in this country was truly an adventure. And, unlike today's "travel writing" which is mostly shilling for hotels and restaurants, Pyle's writings focused primarily on people he met on the road.
Really? Robert Zimmerman is troubling them?
How is that?
He doesn’t buy into their agenda. That’s how. Or do you somehow think that Dylan is out there spouting leftwing nonsense because he ISN’T.
And a lot of them still haven't figured out that Jack was smarter than they were. They still wish he had been smart like them.
2. Morrison's father was an Admiral.
When I did my cross country last year, I took many detours off of I-90 and I-80. As a result, I went to places like Du Smet, SD where the Laural Ingells Wilder spent the largest portion of her childhood.
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
-—Jack Kerouac
The whole Countercultural Revolution made me want to throw up, back when it happened, for the very reasons suggested.
Here were all these punks and jerks claiming to be revolutionaries and saying no to authority and all that, yet they marched in lockstep just like lemmings or Nazis.
It’s still the same. The leftist moonbats will throw anyone out of their ranks into permanent exile who disagrees with them on a single point.
For years, because he went from Left to Right (okay more Right), Columbia University refused to teach any works of Steinbeck in their Lit. Classes.
>Or do you somehow think that Dylan is out there spouting leftwing nonsense because he ISN’T.
What is wrong with your brain, you twit?
I asked you a question, I did not invite you to thrill me with your mind reading acumen.
Why don’t you try to explain what you wrote instead of this borish attack?
Just reading the name Tom Hayden makes me laugh.
I love “On the Road.” It, along with “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” and Siddhartha, are three of the books I try to read every couple of years.
Ed
Um. From your question it sounded like you assumed Dylan was a leftwinger. Also his name is DYLAN. Originally Zimmerman but that is his right to change it. Strange that you bring that up though.
I always saw Kerouac as tending toward the libertarian side. Wasn’t Dennis Hopper just re-enacting Jack for the screen?
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