Hard to believe the Primus release "Sailing the Seas of Cheese" is 30 years old.
But 2021 - 1991 = 30. The math speaks for itself.
Of course nowadays we live in this twisted age of "battering ram confusion." Just say anything as loud as possible and pummel your audience repeatedly and incessantly. Better yet, use explanation points and ALL CAPS!!! And if you ever lose (at anything), simply cry fraud and fake news. Hey, for what it's worth, it's merely a strategy. Lather, rinse, repeat. Maybe it should be... blather, wince, retweet. Perhaps everyone just assumed it could never work. You know, due to the "sore loser" accountability variable and the notion of being portrayed as an obnoxious liar and inhuman being.
Hmm, maybe everyone got it wrong.
A spot-on summation from Barack Obama. Taken from a recent article in The Atlantic.
The threats to American democracy—and to the broader cause of freedom—are many, he said. He was withering on the subject of Donald Trump, but acknowledged that Trump himself is not the root of the issue. “I’m not surprised that somebody like Trump could get traction in our political life,” he said. “He’s a symptom as much as an accelerant. But if we were going to have a right-wing populist in this country, I would have expected somebody a little more appealing.”
Trump, Obama noted, is not exactly an exemplar of traditional American manhood. “I think about the classic male hero in American culture when you and I were growing up: the John Waynes, the Gary Coopers, the Jimmy Stewarts, the Clint Eastwoods, for that matter. There was a code … the code of masculinity that I grew up with that harkens back to the ’30s and ’40s and before that. There’s a notion that a man is true to his word, that he takes responsibility, that he doesn’t complain, that he isn’t a bully—in fact he defends the vulnerable against bullies. And so even if you are someone who is annoyed by wokeness and political correctness and wants men to be men again and is tired about everyone complaining about the patriarchy, I thought that the model wouldn’t be Richie Rich—the complaining, lying, doesn’t-take-responsibility-for-anything type of figure.”
He went on to say, “If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition our democracy doesn’t work. We are entering into an epistemological crisis.”
American Strife
sonofsaf
Valley of a city named Silicon
Were some companies techno to the core
Jack Dorsey of twitter trumped Donald one day
The closing of American doors
Now the beings of man won’t be stayin’ alive
Life for them is a jealous trial
As the people have embraced indecency
For their lives we have American strife
Mankind’s burning in effigy
All hope is beginning to fade
The old will feed and consume their young
Humans are turning the page
Retweeting ’til the dawn
can we go back
Choose a different human from the right
As Noah steers the ark of history,
For their lives we have American strife
Trump is a disgruntled president
Donald is blowing the conch
Begging for money in deplorable ways
Tweeting out he cast a pox
Now he makes his endless pitch and creates a big fog
Seeking out the gullible man
As he welcomes all forms of bigotry
He’s the leader of American strife
American Life
Primus
In a town in southernmost Sicily
Lived a family too proud to be poor
In the year that fever took father away
They hastened for American shores
Now a mother and her son are standing in line
It's a cold day on Ellis Isle
And they look to the Statue of Liberty
For the boy we have American Life
Ong is a Laotian refugee
He works in the audio trade
The smoke from flux is filling his lungs
He's earning minimum wage
Spending spare time down on
San Pablo Ave.
Once a week gets a woman for the night
And he writes home tales of prosperity
For the boy we have American Life
Bob is an unemployed veteran
Born and bred in the South Bronx
He's living off the streets down in east L.A.
Residing in a cardboard box
Now he plays a little guit and he has a small dog
Searching for aluminum cans
And he hold on tight to his dignity
He was born into American Life
Primus concerts:
7-21-93, Star Lake Amphitheater, Burgettstown, PA (Lollapalooza)
3-14-98, Community College of Beaver County (Beaver Dome, how cool is that?), Monaca, PA
6-22-99, Lollapalooza, Star Lake Amphitheater, Burgettstown, PA
5-22-12, Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
4-14-15, Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
7-30-17, Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
11-2-17, Goodyear Theatre, Akron, OH
6-8-18, Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
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