Ray9
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- Jul 19, 2016
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Dear Paul,
Like you I am a child of the 60’s. I am also a fellow short person. I have no idea what your politics is and if you are liberal beautiful person, that is ok. I am an independent thinker on the conservative side. I have fond memories of you and Art Garfunkel using heavenly harmonies at the end of the folk era and transitioning to rock. It was a beautiful thing and your music is in my heart forever.
You penned a song in 1973, Kodachrome, that I confess I missed the importance of when it came out. Creative people can sometimes pull things out of the air. You and Bob Dylan were especially good at it. Today I can use my computer to do a forensic crawl through my musical past and I pay attention to the words now.
The first line of that song was revealing: “When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all.” Educators in our society have a captive audience and even then you seemed to have perceived that privilege was being abused. Worldviews were being imposed on students as far back as your song and your lack of education that hadn’t hurt you none, allowed you to see that.
Most attempts to reproduce your original lyrics miss the poetic license you used to coin a word, “remagination”, which means that memories are vividly colored in hues that were never really there. “Everything looks worse in black and white” was good, please stop changing it for apparent political correctness in your concerts.
There is a terrible plague of indoctrination in our educational system today and our society is in a state of chaos not seen since the 1960’s when you and Art were just getting started. Our colleges and universities have become recruiting centers for the overthrow of our way of life and kids are not getting a true picture of reality.
I will be forever in your debt for writing that song. It was so long ago but it captured the essence of a terrible misuse of our schools and the creeping socialism that drip, drip, drips like a leak that becomes a flood. If you listen to the angry music that is out there today you are probably as concerned as I am.
Thanks for listening.
Ray
Like you I am a child of the 60’s. I am also a fellow short person. I have no idea what your politics is and if you are liberal beautiful person, that is ok. I am an independent thinker on the conservative side. I have fond memories of you and Art Garfunkel using heavenly harmonies at the end of the folk era and transitioning to rock. It was a beautiful thing and your music is in my heart forever.
You penned a song in 1973, Kodachrome, that I confess I missed the importance of when it came out. Creative people can sometimes pull things out of the air. You and Bob Dylan were especially good at it. Today I can use my computer to do a forensic crawl through my musical past and I pay attention to the words now.
The first line of that song was revealing: “When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all.” Educators in our society have a captive audience and even then you seemed to have perceived that privilege was being abused. Worldviews were being imposed on students as far back as your song and your lack of education that hadn’t hurt you none, allowed you to see that.
Most attempts to reproduce your original lyrics miss the poetic license you used to coin a word, “remagination”, which means that memories are vividly colored in hues that were never really there. “Everything looks worse in black and white” was good, please stop changing it for apparent political correctness in your concerts.
There is a terrible plague of indoctrination in our educational system today and our society is in a state of chaos not seen since the 1960’s when you and Art were just getting started. Our colleges and universities have become recruiting centers for the overthrow of our way of life and kids are not getting a true picture of reality.
I will be forever in your debt for writing that song. It was so long ago but it captured the essence of a terrible misuse of our schools and the creeping socialism that drip, drip, drips like a leak that becomes a flood. If you listen to the angry music that is out there today you are probably as concerned as I am.
Thanks for listening.
Ray