This was the music we were weaned on in the 1970s. I heard on a bitcoin podcast yesterday that it was released the day before the Nixon Shock speech. I didn't verify it, but the lyrics of the song shaped many of us politically. The last line is still quoted regularly from both the left and the right:
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I had always heard that line was a reference to Abby Hoffman situation during the Who's set at Woodstock....(Hoffman was a leftist political agitator who basically commandeered the mic during the Who's set to turn it into a political speech)....I think Townshend saw that all the politico types were the same...given an inch the peace-preaching leftist would become tyrannical in their own way....
Gonna go take a leak, be right back!
Who's next?
The Who were punks before their time.
They expressed the nihilist disillusionment with 'the system' that grew in Great Britain and more broadly after the war and during the decline of The British Empire.
They preceded the neoliberal cynicism about politics in general before the slide into neoliberalism cemented the wider decline of western democracies.
Live at Leeds was my favourite...until The Sex Pistols came along.
God Save The Queen!
Live At Leeds! Great album. Young Man Blues. Sex Pistols were also fantastic.Bodies, Anarchy In The UK. I saw Lydon once with a band called PIL, I think, after the breakup
Yes Public Image Limited is what it stood for I think...and yes he formed it after The Sex Pistols melt down.
Was never the same after Sid Vicious died.
We were all gonna die before we're 21, but we're still here!
We are all Sid, we are all Satoshi!
The struggle for freedom never dies...I say as the wife waits for me to take her shopping!
Exactly the same here.
So good! I've heard this song many times, but never with the added context. It really gives it an added punch though. It also makes me wonder if taking an early interest in politics (and economics) and then becoming completely disenchanted didn't prime me for Bitcoin in a way I didn't appreciate before. I guess whether it's 1971 or 2008, human nature around power and money doesn't change much.
I listened to the same Mark Connors podcast and was just thinking about this song. Thanks for posting!
Similar energy in Dylan’s The Times They Are A-Changin’ and later Neil Young’s Ohio.
🎶Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a changin🎶
I will give Timothée Chalamet his flowers for his performance of this song in A Complete Unknown
i still havent seen it.
i gotta check it out
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Truer now than ever. Classic!
Western democracies have become more and more owned by corporate sponsors ever since the 1970s.
The shadowy sponsors own both major parties in most western democracies...this structurally undermines the intent of democracy.
Ironically Chinas system operating upon an effective Heavens Mandate whereby the CCP know they will be brutally removed if they fail to serve the majority of citizens has delivered superior results.
Democracy has failed because we as citizens became apathetic and lazy.
Libertarians seem to assume government is of limited value when in reality it is a huge factor in the wealth and security of nations.
We do not live in functional democracies - we live under crony capitalist corporatocratic patronage and Zionist control of the Fed Res.
1971 dropping absolute truth bombs. Some things never change.
Resonates with a regional saying my grand grandmother told me:
The previous ones were occupators, the current ones are liberators