Listening this morning to one of the great albums, The Weavers At Carnegie Hall. Music filled with such optimism and hope! How old-fashioned that they were branded as commies. Like Guthrie, they had profound faith in "the people" to lead the charge toward equality and freedom, which I once bought into myself.
But I qualify myself today: if "the people" are going to reverse the corporate creation of our new species, Homo consumerus, immigrants, not raised on American mythology, will take the lead. But by then we'll probably be controlled by "wearable technology," the latest "advance" in our new subversive freedom, the triumph of opinion over knowledge.
How nostalgic to hear the Weavers!
But I qualify myself today: if "the people" are going to reverse the corporate creation of our new species, Homo consumerus, immigrants, not raised on American mythology, will take the lead. But by then we'll probably be controlled by "wearable technology," the latest "advance" in our new subversive freedom, the triumph of opinion over knowledge.
How nostalgic to hear the Weavers!
