Ep 338 Dear Bruce Via Bobby

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Ep 338 of RevolutionZ seeks to speak to Bruce Springsteen in light of his recent warranted and eloquent outcry against Trump and Trump's retaliatory threats, and also to Bobby Dylan, a Master of Words, with his own words, and, well, to anyone who would like to relate to these times in light of past and future times. Authoritarianism, military spectacle, and resistance. How do we survive is one sensible question. How do we overcome is a still better question. Is our time to us worth saving?
This episode offers some of Dylan's words as both mirror and motivation. You've heard them? You haven't heard them? If I can recite them in turmoil and thanks after a million hearings, perhaps you can hear them usefully, even again, too. Can we crawl out our window? Can we know our song well before we start singing? Can we dance on the graves of war-makers? Is it alright ma? Is hard rain falling already? Can we tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it, and reflect it from the mountains so all souls can see it? And can we avoid becoming puppets repelling who we ought to be hearing?
Revisit or discover some of Dylan's lyrics here. For words, music, and voice, perhaps start with the trilogy that changed everything: "Bringing It All Back Home," "Highway 61 Revisited," and "Blonde on Blonde," or earlier or later. I hope his words can do for you what they do for me: help fuel your resistance and enflame your desires to make real your own chimes of freedom.

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Chapters

1. Trump Resistance and Bruce Springsteen (00:00:00)

2. Call for Public Figures to Protest (00:04:46)

3. Dylan's Relationship Songs with a Worldly Edge (00:08:48)

4. Dylan's Protest Songs and Social Commentary (00:18:21)

5. Dylan's Poetic Masterpieces and Imagery (00:28:03)

6. Dignity, Farewell Angelina, and Later Works (00:35:05)

7. The Times They Are A-Changin' and Final Thoughts (00:45:13)