Postby Tchocolatl » Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:15 am
Jung Dr. Freud, I think I get your drift. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but sometime, it is a big bad symbol, like when you are the president of United States and you treat yourself with cuban cigars and so on about the symbol of the cigar. It was less indecent than this video of a certain prisoner-bearded-dictator. But, I guess it is another of my very personal point of view.
OK, get back to the protest songs against the war, now. Baby boomers generation, they fought against the institutions as being the nest of the "evil" but they rarely look into themselves to see if they where not part of the game. Conclusion, now, many of them are old fat cats that do worst than what they had denounced. Sad. To say the less.
Cohen has this fascinating side to tell about the fact that if you want peace, you have to be peacefull not to shout "peace" and not not to yell "love" and be violent in the name of these concepts. (Very jungian idea, this side of Cohen, again). He never gave into the fashionable hippie idea "never trust somebody over 30" (or something like that, may some good Samaritan corrects me, if I was not accurate) It seems that he never was blind about this reality, like many singers of his generation.
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"He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love."
Leonard Cohen
Beautiful Losers