[Mb-civic] Re: COME BACK JESUS

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Hi Michael,

I don't know if you sent this privately on purpose or what, but I just got a
chance to check it out on your blog.  Excellent points.  Inbetween rock,
metal, folk, etc, I once played in a reggae band.  Marley was always a
superhero to me, even though when I first heard him I had never even heard
of reggae, along with the rest of my 60's "rockgods".  When he went, it was
just like any other big one going, King, Kennedy, Hendrix, etc.  Blew a
gigantic hole in the picture it had taken so long for someone to paint.  I
remember at the reggae gigs we played, almost like no other kind of music,
the people got out on the floor and danced and danced and danced.  Very calm
rythmic soothing music, as opposed to various other kinds.  Just makes me
want to dance, among other things, heh.

The response by Clarke on Civic to your blog piece was interesting.  What I
continue to discover is that I must apparently be among some of the less
educated people in America, probably a majority of us, as I didn't even
recognize most of the names he was talking about, although I recall Thoreau,
and got the main gist of his observances.

He makes a good point.  It appears we've, many of us, have been trained,
thoroughly, to simply ignore history, ignore all the works and writings they
produced before we showed up, as almost irrelevant in the face of the "Now".
The ever-present "Present", rushing headlong into the ever-waiting Future
full of brand new products to buy, try and consume.  Horribly enough, as
someone once stated once to me "After all, what is History good for as
you're cruising down the freeway at 80 mph...?".  Today's, and Tomorrow's,
ghastly reality catching up to our vast ignorance and ignoring of those who
came before us, and all they contributed, as "just relatively useless
characters in some book with pictures in it the teacher once made me read".

Rather tragic when one realizes that the level of education, among some, in
even America appears to sometimes approach that of 3rd world countries as to
the Past's minds and their writings that they inscribed down for more than
just their health.  If it is the children of "Today" that are going to be
taking over things in our "Tomorrow", we remain in deep crap as far as any
deep-seated culture based on the virtuous creations of the Past guiding
them.  Thoreau is probably guessed at by a majority of them as being some
form of throat lozenge at WalMart.

Well, just thought I'd reply, and began to ramble again.  I didn't know you
were a Marley/Reggae fan.  He was my main man for a long time.  As far as
other reggae artists, I dunno, I got hooked on Bob long ago, and it's kind
of like I loved Hendrix but when I hear someone other than him doing his
music, it never just quite compares with the master himself.  And liked your
piece on the blog.  As far as a Messiah.  I dunno.  It appears so many
people appear to have been waiting so many eons for someone to fullfil
promises in old books and come back to save us from this over-apparent
collective tragedy, that I sometimes speculate that if he is not us
ourselves, on some level, then who the hell is he.  Regardless, he is
apparently quite late.  I'll wind my watch next time.

Be well,



Patrick

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