Soooooo.....................the students are becoming political activists again at last , even if they are motivated by self-interest and the rising cost of tuition fees .
Given that my time at college was spent against a backdrop of CND marches, the Hornsey Affair and student sit-ins , the Grosvenor Square rally and the Paris riots of '68 , all to a soundtrack of ' Street Fighting Man ' and ' Won't Get Fooled Again ' by the Stones and the Who respectively, it all seems fairly mild by comparison . Where were the student riots protesting against Afghanistan , Iran , the Banking System ?.............and why is it all sound-tracked to the bland anodyne product that seems to be taking over the world via the Simon Cowell Corporation ?.........what happened to creativity , individualism , freedom of expression ?.......maybe each generation gets the music - and the politics - it deserves..............
.....BAD MOON RISING...
........and the situation across the Atlantic doesn't seem to be any better. ...........for the country that saw out the tail-end of the sixties to the protests against Viet-Nam and a sound track of Neil Young's ' Ohio ' and Buffalo Springfield's ' For What It's Worth ' , what's left of the radical / intellectual left seems to be paralysed like a rabbit in the headlights of the on-coming juggernaut that is Sarah Palin..." We must stand by our allies North Korea at this time of conflict " .....whhaaaat ?.....the thought of her running for President in 2012 quite frankly scares the shit out of me.........the Mayan calendar shows the world ending in December 2012, about a month or so into the Palin Presidency . What if they knew something we don't - yet ?..........Christ, get me out of here .
For those are interested in political activism / rock music in the sixties and early seventies, I can highly recommend ' There's A Riot Going On ' by Peter Doggett.............for the rest of you, I wouldn't bother making any long term plans just yet.
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