08-23-2010, 05:09 PM
Friday, during the Courtyard Concert at the Library the Downhome Sophisticates did the Crosby, Still & Nash song "Long Time Gone" and I went to Ravinia yesterday and saw CSN perform this same song. I've heard this song many times over the years but in these last two instances the line in the song "You've got to speak out against the madness" stood out for me. It made me think. What was the "madness" they spoke of? There are people today saying "you've got to speak out against the madness". What is the "madness" they speak of. Are they one and the same form of madness? It seems there is a vast difference between the two kinds of "madness"
The CSN madness most likely pertained to social aspects of society⦠war (poor kids dying in a war that was more about money than anything else), injustice in general and racial injustice, the cold war and all the crap that surrounded it, sexual repression, lack of concern for the environment by industry (remember the river in Ohio that was so polluted it caught on fire), and in general, true freedom... to be free of absurd government regulation in our individual pursuit of happiness.
The speaking out against madness today is about money.
The CSN madness most likely pertained to social aspects of society⦠war (poor kids dying in a war that was more about money than anything else), injustice in general and racial injustice, the cold war and all the crap that surrounded it, sexual repression, lack of concern for the environment by industry (remember the river in Ohio that was so polluted it caught on fire), and in general, true freedom... to be free of absurd government regulation in our individual pursuit of happiness.
The speaking out against madness today is about money.