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Zen fascists will control you: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/zen-fascist-wi/
In 1979, a punk band from San Francisco recorded a song about the Governor of California. It was a joke, mostly. Jerry Brown was a Democrat, a Buddhist, a man who dated Linda Ronstadt and discussed limits and simplicity at a moment when America was in no mood for either.
I relaxed quite a bit when I got to Fred Turner's name.
You say your piece is long, but it's comparatively a bite-size introduction to Turner which I hope will help more people see these connections.
I try to keep a copy of this interview with Turner on hand:
https://thedigradio.com/podcast/counterculture-to-cyberculture-with-fred-turner/
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Zen fascists will control you: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/zen-fascist-wi/
In 1979, a punk band from San Francisco recorded a song about the Governor of California. It was a joke, mostly. Jerry Brown was a Democrat, a Buddhist, a man who dated Linda Ronstadt and discussed limits and simplicity at a moment when America was in no mood for either.
@ianbetteridge Excellent article, with a side benefit of giving me a California Über Alles earworm which is pretty good as earworms go.
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Zen fascists will control you: https://www.ianbetteridge.com/zen-fascist-wi/
In 1979, a punk band from San Francisco recorded a song about the Governor of California. It was a joke, mostly. Jerry Brown was a Democrat, a Buddhist, a man who dated Linda Ronstadt and discussed limits and simplicity at a moment when America was in no mood for either.
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@tym It's a *really* good point and I’d love to write something exploring it. There's a lot of “the hippy dream is over" that emerges around that period - I'm thinking of the line from "Blue” ("acid booze and ass/needles guns and grass... lots of laughs”) and I think some of that starts with Woodstock (the event and the song)
@ianbetteridge I think you are right that she went through a period of disillusionment that turns up in her songs. I also see her as having always just had that restless schizoid creative individual streak, where she can never wholeheartedly embrace a scene or a movement or even a musical style, keeps herself always a step apart, because as a matter of personality she’s more interested in questions than answers
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