[lbo-talk] Capitalism RE: catastrophe

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 17 20:35:44 PDT 2011


At 08:12 PM 3/17/2011, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


>Does this sound like's he's singing about choosing commodities? Joanna

It doesn't and he wasn't. But I think the song also exemplifies how easy it is to talk about freedom and get away with sounding heavy. He did make the song up on the fly, having been given the task of keeping a gazillion people happy until other acts arrived. He had to play 3 hours. Repeating Freedom over and over to a bunch of hippies wasn't a hard sell.

He also played at the Tibetan Freedom Concert. What does freedom mean in that context? It is a word people use without thinking about what it means, no?



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