Good morning everyone,
I had a lazy day yesterday, finally, after traveling at a pretty fast clip since November 1. If you've been following along, I have been to LaBitConf.com in Buenos Aires, then Steemfest (whuddup everyone), London with Coinscrum crew, the Berlin at Bxb, and finally in my (semi) home city in Europe, Warsaw. My mom is from here, and every summer as a child I would come here and go to camp. It makes me think of what the times were like then, vs now. Back then, you had to get certain tickets to go get things, and the country was gray and poor. Now, Warsaw specifically is thriving, though that's not to say it doesn't come with it's own new corruptions after the communist state.
But forget all that. I wanted to share with you the picture of the dawn as I reflect on my trip with a bit more music in my life. I don't have too many new songs that I know about enough to like, though I imagine they are out there. I have a hard time finding new music, mostly because I don't have time to look. So I stick with the classics, and the artists that move me. This morning I am listening to Working Class Hero by John Lennon. Great lyrics, though I find with this song and some of his others like Imagine that the meaning is not 100% clear. I wonder what he would have been like now, and what he would think of the world today. I hear he voted for Reagan. And so I have dug up this article to compliment my sharing of the song. A highlight?
Disillusioned with harsh, overreaching Yippies like Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, Lennon now emphasized individual responsibility rather than collective political action. “Produce your own dream,” he told Sheff. “If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.”
I sometimes wonder why we don't have more people that speak out, but when I feel the power of music, I instinctively feel how disruptive it can be. And this is precisely why it needs to be supported and live free...
What do you think of the song? Any clues to it's meaning or any reason why it resonated with you?
