Re: highway 61, history, present, photos

From: Paul H.Dillon (illonph@pacbell.net)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 11:34:10 PDT


I don't know Bill,

I think Dylan's song(s) from that period have probably had more consequence
than anything that's happened in Centralia for tuning people into the
structures of social injustices and irrationality that lead to such
situations as you graphically depicted.

Just as probably the G8 folks in Genoa today will have more consequence for
Centralia (and everywhere else) than anything happening in Centralia (or
anywhere else) will have for the G8 folks because, maybe, people (as Paul
Simon once put) heard Dylan's songs but didn't listen. And GWB parroting
away: an enemy of free trade is an enemy of poor people. Who but Dylan
deconstructed, on such a massive and popular level, the double think/double
speak inherent in such statements.

What one learns in alternatives to schools surely won't be the same thing as
what they learn in schools, no old wine in new bottles.

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Barowy <wbarowy@yahoo.com>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: highway 61, history, present, photos

> Ah, but surely Dylon's song has far less consequence than what's happened
for
> the last 40 years in Centralia. To revive Eric's question about learning
in
> contexts that are alternative to schooling -- one could ask what we have
> learned in Pennsylvania?
>
> bb
>
> --- "Paul H.Dillon" <illonph@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > bill,
> >
> > you can't travel east on the hiway 61 in Eric's reference if taken in
the
> > context of dylan's 1966 album. It runs north south from Tennessee
through
> > Mississippi into Louisiana..
> >
> > Paul H. Dillon
> >
>
>
> =====
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