> > [Krimel] > > So let's review: You quote Seeger to support your right wing fantasies. > > But when the context is made clear you entered into a debate with his > > song? > > Thanks for another lesson in the obscure workings of the conservative > > mind. > > [Platt] > Only your mind is obscure. I quoted one line to illustrate that yuppies > have never learned the sacrifices required to defend liberty. Obviously, > the socialist, pacifist Seeger never learned it either. > > [Krimel] > OK, just to further the history lesson. Seeger or at least his music is > better associated with hippies. Yuppies were the corporals and sergeants > of > the Raygun Revolution. They are best portrayed in the film American > Psycho. > Seeger on the other hand was featured in "Alice's Restaurant". He was a > friend of Woody Guthrie. His songs, were made popular by such flower > children as the Mama's and the Papa's, The Byrds, Joaz Baez and the > Kingston > Trio. His songs, like, "If I Had a Hammer" and his reworking of > Ecclesiastes > into the celestial, "Turn, Turn, Turn," were at once simple, direct and > profoundly cerebral. > > A nice sample of yuppie music can be found on the American Psycho > soundtrack, Phil Collins, Robert Palmer, Huey Lewis, and Katrina and the > Waves. Like the Raygun era that spawned it, it is all very energetic, > mindless and self centered.
Thanks for the history lesson. I should have guessed Seeger was a hippie. Pirsig describes those losers perfectly. Of course, when the tyranny of Russian communism collapsed thanks to Reagan-Thatcher it was probably a sad day for Seeger and his buddies. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
