[lbo-talk] Comments on NY Time article: "The Meaning of Bob Dylan's Silence"

Mark Wain wtkh at comcast.net
Wed Oct 26 22:13:14 PDT 2016


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/opinion/the-meaning-of-bob-dylans-silence. html <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/opinion/the-meaning-of-bob-dylans-silence .html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion- c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left -region&_r=0>

The Nobel prizes have for a long time taken it to become more a pro-establishment instrument than a pro-people critique of the corrupted rich and powerful. The Nobel Prize authority awarded Obama and other pols peace prizes are not worth powder and shot; it has awarded uniformly capital-leaning or barely disguised, obsequious and dissembling capital-apologist economists for prized in economics without shame. It has no scruples about political partiality and pulls no punches on expediency.

The Nobel Prize authority of prizes in Literature, Economic Sciences and Peace has literally degraded itself to the degree that it serves capital of the world as the annual ideological huckster. Many just and progressive prize-winners including Jean-Paul Sartre, Bob Dylan and many more before and after them all refused to accept it for political, philosophical, social and humanist reasons. The two Literature Prize winners, Sartre in 1964 and Dylan in 2016, may indeed do so for existentialist reasons. But deep in their hearts, the radioactive capital hegemony must also ring a bell. As the Economic Sciences awardees are limited to only the orthodox sector, the fact that the authority discriminates against progressive "hordes" to win the award is obvious.

The nonpartisan revolution trend in its surge against the establishment and towards a new democracy, just like the anti-climate-change movement, must be made global before they become unstoppable and so must be the ideological struggle.

Mark Wain https://www.facebook.com/andrew.colesville/

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