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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

Our television is not connected to anything that will bring in  
whatever is on tv these days. But we do like watching movies, so we  
are subscribed to Netflix. Chris and I go look at the offerings from  
time to time and she chooses chick flix and name-actor films and I  
choose other stuff. One of my choices--the one in the subject line  
above--showed up today and we watched it. Chris thought she would  
probably not like it at all. She loved it.

The documentary starts by showing the Seeger homestead, including the  
house he built himself. Various scenes show him working with an axe.

While his life is irrevocably intertwined in activist politics, his  
music is the thing. From his gift ukulele as a boy to the guitar and  
banjo, he spoke most loudly with his music. He made mistakes. He was  
briefly a communist, refused to say what Congress wanted, became  
blacklisted, came back bigger than ever. In 1966 he co-founded the  
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which has done good work to clean that  
polluted waterway.

There are fun vignettes of Dylan, Baez, Springstein, Arlo and Woody  
Guthrie, various members of his old groups. Lots of scenes from old  
performances with The Almanac Singers and The Weavers.

Those who like folk music but don't like his activist politics can  
still enjoy the movie. Seeger did much to popularize the five-string  
banjo and the twelve-string guitar. He wrote music, he taught music,  
he most loved to play and sing with an audience in full participation.

Pete Seeger is now 89, so I'm glad this movie was made while he is  
still alive. He's an American classic, to many a hero.

"I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to  
turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn  
the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of  
each other."
-- Pete Seeger
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bob ford wrote:
> Bev, years ago a 22 y.o. girl from Georgia named Carson McCullers
> wrote a wonderful story about a deaf-mute who became a boarder in a
> family home in small town Georgia.  Everyone in the small town
> eventually became his friend because he would just sit and listen to
> him, he couldn't interrupt, being mute.  At the end of the story he
> ends himself with a bullet .  He had no-one to listen to him.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is required reading.  Good book, and worth 
some thought.

> Recognize that people do listen to you.  You are not going to
> instantly change any minds, on this list, not in macro-situational
> areas like politics.

I know, I know.


> I think mostly what you are aggravated about is that the ideas of the
> left seem to be readily acceted on this list while ideas on the right
> always are often required to offer ten different methods of
> reasoning.  That is just a matter of numbers.

Yes.

> I tend to agree with people on the right more than the left and find
> the right more open to others ideas, but I have big dis-agreements on
> some issues with the right.

As do I.


> You have many long term 'friends' on this list.  Talk politics, or
> whatever. State your opinion and stand by what you see as the truth.
> If someone is rude to you, defend yourself, let it go, or ignore them
> for a while until it is forgotten. I have a "***k-it attitude, but
> that is just me.  ...bobford
>
> p.s. Your kids pay more attention to what you say than you realize

Thanks, Bob.


--
“Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to
hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda