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In reply to the discussion: Could we get a thread going of political and anti-war music suggestions? [View all]Journeyman
(15,458 posts)13. Ineffective response, but it can warm the heart . . .
People like to say that if Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer,
Boccaccio, Calderón, Lord Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton
had never lived we would experience worse wars, usury,
more oppressive fraud, malfeasance and servitude.
I doubt it. I think they functioned as entertainers
who taught nothing. I submit the continuation of
everything they abhorred substantiates my argument.
Boccaccio, Calderón, Lord Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton
had never lived we would experience worse wars, usury,
more oppressive fraud, malfeasance and servitude.
I doubt it. I think they functioned as entertainers
who taught nothing. I submit the continuation of
everything they abhorred substantiates my argument.
~ Evan S. Connell
Points for a Compass Rose
"You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books?"
"No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?"
"I say, 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book, instead?'"
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too.
"No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?"
"I say, 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book, instead?'"
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
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Could we get a thread going of political and anti-war music suggestions? [View all]
cali
Aug 2013
OP
Eddie Vetter's No More - the theme song for the movie Body of War, which is about
kas125
Aug 2013
#49
Barlow says he wrote Throwing Stones after meeting Cheney and that it's about him.
kas125
Aug 2013
#64
LOL, we had a lot of them. But to be serious for a second, do you realize just how lucky we are?
kas125
Aug 2013
#69