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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">The films by or about Bob Dylan are every bit as strange,
unique, intimate &amp; evasive, as he is and Martin <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Scorsese&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9577852/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Rolling Thunder Review: A Bob Dylan
Story</span></a>, </i>streaming now on Netflix,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>is no </span>exception, blending documentary footage Dylan had
taken during the famous 1974-6 tour with more than a few fictional add-ons from
the likes of Sharon Stone, Kipper Kid Martin von Haselberg, and studio exec
(just not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that </i>studio nor <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that </i>exec) Jim Gianapolus. But as
somebody who has been listening to, close-reading and watching the troubadour of
Hibbing for at least 57 years, the real stars of this paradocumentary are Bob Dylan&#8217;s
eyes. They are luminous, blue and often (in the faux Noh white paint that turns
up pretty much everywhere on Dylan, violinist Scarlet Rivera, and even for a
bit Joan Baez, during the tour) green.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rsillima/Documents/Crit/Blog/2019/Bob%20Dylan.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Most importantly, they are searching, making contact, commenting on the action
we see and the inner workings behind the mask that are not given to us during
the two-hour, twenty minutes of the film.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">In 1974, Bob Dylan had largely been off the road for the previous
eight years following a motorcycle accident before returning to do a series of
stadium and arena-sized shows with The Band, the legendary backup quintet once
known as Ronnie Hawkins&#8217; Hawks. During the interim, Dylan and the Band<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>had<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;
</span>been down in the basement making some glorious music, the group had
become nearly as famous as their front man, and the stadium shows reflected
this with alternating sets. It was a format that had become standard in the
post-Woodstock era, one that lives on today all over the globe, from Coachella
to K-Pop<a href="file:///C:/Users/rsillima/Documents/Crit/Blog/2019/Bob%20Dylan.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
But it is also the form that drove the Beatles into retirement from live
performance in 1967 and its fundamental inhumanness is its basic truth. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rolling Thunder Review </i>repeatedly
returns to the fact that the smaller venues Dylan chose for the three-year
traveling carnival he had created to succeed the gigs with the band ensured
that it would never succeed financially. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">But touring is an essential economic truth in the music
business, where record companies were sucking up vast portions of any performer&#8217;s
earnings long before the rise of the net and the cloud put control of the
product into serious doubt. After a five-year touring career in the early 1960s
and a six-month return before screaming masses of adoring ants, Dylan was
searching for something different. Rolling Thunder was the result.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">With the stadium shows, Dylan had begun rolling out his new strategy
of reworking some of his standards, often quite dramatically, and the Rolling
Thunder performances show Dylan&#8217;s passion for these new versions of what had already
become familiar classics as well as more recent fare from the records released
during the eight years away from touring. But what is really most notable are
Dylan&#8217;s facial expressions, his directness with the audience, eyes rolling when
Baez transposes a phrase, eyebrows arching, registering emotion. It&#8217;s not just
that Dylan is having fun, although how often<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;
</span>have you seen him acknowledge <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that,
</i>but that he&#8217;s communicating and collaborating with his expressions in ways
I had not seen during his folk and earlier rock periods and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">never </i>in the course of his Never-Ending
Tour that has gone on now for over 31 years.<a href="file:///C:/Users/rsillima/Documents/Crit/Blog/2019/Bob%20Dylan.docx#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Like, say, Miles Davis (a performer whom at times reminds me of Dylan in his
obsessional focus on the piece at hand), who seldom if ever interacted with
audiences, Dylan often feels onstage is if he were alone with his band. Not so
in these performances. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">Which is what gives these shows &amp; this film an intensity
Dylan seldom approaches elsewhere. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">Rolling Thunder was also Dylan&#8217;s attempt to create an
alternative to the isolating realities of fame and travel that can bedevil musicians.
Anyone who has seen Chuck Berry or Bo Diddley arriving for a concert with some
backup band he has never met, let alone with whom he has practiced, or heard
the exhaustion in the voice of a solo artist like Eric Andersen (who has a bit
role in this film), or who can count the number of musicians who have died on
the road, will sympathize. Dylan&#8217;s idea was to put together a small community
of first-rate artists and take them all along for the ride. While the film
returns repeatedly to the figure of the carnival, it&#8217;s really the pilgrimages
of, say, Chaucer&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canterbury Tales </i>that
echo most loudly here. The film&#8217;s second billing goes to Allen Ginsberg,
labeled in the credits as (Dylan&#8217;s phrase) the Oracle of Delphi, who begins the
tour as a central obsession for Dylan (&#8220;absolutely not a father figure&#8221; Bob
insists as Ginsberg leads him to the grave of Jack Kerouac, footage everyone
has seen before but given new poignancy by the context offered here ) but
concludes it sharing roadie duties with Peter Orlovsky. Others in the mix
include Patti Smith, Baez, Ramblin&#8217; Jack Elliot, Roger McGuinn and Joni
Mitchell. Oddly missing from the interviews are most of the musicians who back
Dylan up, particularly Bobby Neuwirth, Dylan&#8217;s close friend who served as the
functional producer of much that ensued musically on the tour and who proves a reasonable
successor to the great lead guitarists Dylan has had going back to the late
Mike Bloomfield. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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producer to the jowly Dylan of just last year &#8211; a failure, it wasn&#8217;t
financially<a href="file:///C:/Users/rsillima/Documents/Crit/Blog/2019/Bob%20Dylan.docx#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
so much as socially. The dynamics of the road are relentless &#8211; Baez, Dylan&#8217;s
ex-lover from the sixties quits the tour &amp; her absence as a grounding is
noticeable<a href="file:///C:/Users/rsillima/Documents/Crit/Blog/2019/Bob%20Dylan.docx#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
What does it mean to have a roving commune in a world so hungry for roots? You
can run away to join the circus, but the circus itself turns out to be a very
circumscribed home. The commune movement, from Ken Kesey&#8217;s Merry Pranksters
forward, was as much a seventies&#8217; phenomenon as a holdover from the sixties,
and as the sometimes incoherent pacing of appearances from Richard Nixon, Gerald
Ford &amp; Jimmy Carter<a href="file:///C:/Users/rsillima/Documents/Crit/Blog/2019/Bob%20Dylan.docx#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
reflects, the failure of the revolution of &#8217;68 left everyone not<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>already bunkered down in the
counterculture without many alternatives. The power imbalance between Dylan and
everyone else is something nobody can get past &#8211; even Baez, here as elsewhere a
snarky skeptic unafraid of being incorrect, concedes to it. Bob is Bob, but
unlike Charlie, he doesn&#8217;t want a harem to kill for him, or &#8211; a la Baker-roshi &#8211;
to ensconce him in wealth and pussy. Dylan profoundly distrusts power, but his
followers are like iron filings to his magnetic presence. It&#8217;s the Gordian knot
he will never cut. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">Much, too much in fact, is made of the question of masks as
Dylan&#8217;s only plausible defense to this conundrum, and when you hear Hurricane
Carter&#8217;s snappy, upbeat chatter about how Dylan is still searching regardless
of his claim to have already found some inner peace, you remember that Rolling
Thunder was Dylan&#8217;s last stop before the Bible<a href="file:///C:/Users/rsillima/Documents/Crit/Blog/2019/Bob%20Dylan.docx#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
In one sense, this is where Scorsese &#8211; Dylan&#8217;s friend since at least <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Last Waltz </i>&#8211; fails as a filmmaker. A
director with some critical distance might have looked with a more jaundiced
eye at the wall Dylan hits at the end of this tour, aesthetically, spiritually,
intellectually. Good intentions will only get you so far. There&#8217;s a reason even
Ringling Bros. gave it up in 2017, and why so many other performers have
retreated to Nashville, Branson or Vegas, why the Blue Man Group or Cirque de
Soleil don&#8217;t do the road. At 78, Dylan still performs at 100-plus venues per
year, compared with the Stones who do 30 once every five years, and McCartney
something comparable to that. Dylan is driven, albeit not by fame, fortune nor
glory &#8211; his fumbling of the Nobel Prize should tell us that. In a sense, he&#8217;s
like the secret cylons in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Battlestar
Gallactica, </i>who know who they are by the song they can&#8217;t get out of their
head, written as it was by Bob Dylan. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The credit roll lists every show from 1974 through 2018 and we are talking <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thousands. <o:p></o:p></i></sub></span></div>
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Billionaire Sir Paul McCartney and maybe the Gershwins must be the only other people
to come close to Dylan in revenue from covers of their music.<o:p></o:p></sub></span></div>
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Their discussion of their marriages, Dylan to the &#8220;woman I love&#8221; in Sara (not
always present on the tour and not visible here), Baez to Stanford anti-war
activist David Harris (&#8220;the man I thought I loved&#8221;), is a level of intimacy
nowhere available elsewhere in any film of Dylan I&#8217;ve ever seen. <o:p></o:p></sub></span></div>
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How many of today&#8217;s audiences will recognize a dazed Lynnette &#8220;Squeaky&#8221; Fromme
being arrested after her attempt to shoot Ford at the Sacramento state capitol,
or even know that Ford was the target of two assassination attempts in one
month? If Scorsese had been making a film about the period, rather than the
tour, he&#8217;d have noted the arrest of Patty Hearst and her SLA compatriots that
same month, prompting one of the network news broadcasts to project its
coverage over the background of the Beach Boys&#8217; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">California Girls. <o:p></o:p></i></sub></span></div>
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Where <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is </i>T-Bone Burnett whose
presence on the tour is sometimes credited with Dylan&#8217;s religious conversion?
Or David Bromberg? Didn&#8217;t he get together with his wife, artist and Santeria practitioner
Nancy Josephson, on the tour? So many great musicians Scorsese could have
talked to and did not. Indeed, there would seem to be a documentary waiting to
be made of Scarlet Rivera&#8217;s presence throughout. Having been &#8220;discovered&#8221; by
Dylan walking down the street in New York &#8211; an event as improbable as Trungpa&#8217;s
famous cab ride with Ginsberg &#8211; everyone seems terrified of her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Next to Dylan, Ginsberg &amp; maybe Baez, she&#8217;s
the most visible person here, still making use of the musical career that
apparently fell from the sky. <o:p></o:p></sub></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">Is power a function of speech?
That, in essence, was the core of the Supreme Court decision we know under the
deeply cynical &#8211; but curiously not inaccurate &#8211; name of </span><i>Citizens United. </i><span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;">Limiting the right of the wealthy to spend
limitless sums of capital on political campaigns was curtailing their right to
speak about issues that matter both to them and the polis.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">But capital is not speech &#8211; it&#8217;s power.</b> Consider the example of
Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>The
company employs 613,300 people, roughly twice the number who worked at IBM when
I was employed there in the late 1990s. Amazon actually earned $171 billion in
revenue in 2017, with an overall net income of $3 billion, assets worth $131
billion and a stock valuation of just under $28 billion. Thus the equity per
employee of Amazon was a smidgen over $45,000. One could argue that the company
was and is a good buy at its current price of around $1500 per share. There is
a lot of value in its activity that is not captured in a stock price that low. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">That value is divided, of course,
not among its employees, but rather its shareholders, the largest being Amazon
founder Jeff Bezos. Not that Bezos depends entirely upon undervalued Amazon
stock for his wealth. His early investment in Google (a mere $250,000) for
example, is now worth more than $3 billion and Bezos owns a lot of other stuff,
including a space exploration company and, through a limited liability
corporation called Nash Holdings, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Washington Post, </i>an asset that makes him a target of angry tweets by
President Trump. Overall, Bezos is said to be worth over $150 billion, slightly
ahead of Bill Gates, but considerably ahead of you and me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">Whether Bezos is the richest man in
the world, as Wikipedia and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Forbes, </i>assert,
or not depends on part on how one values the wealth of some off-the-books
types, such as Vladimir Putin ($200B, give or take<a href="file:///C:/Users/rsillima/Documents/Crit/Blog/2019/Is%20power%20a%20function%20of%20speech.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>)
or the 2,000-members of the Saud family said to be worth a total of roughly
$1.4 trillion, a significant amount of which is controlled by a handful of elders.
Saudi Arabia is, after all, the one country named for its ruling family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">A few years ago, when Bill Gates
first became the &#8220;richest man in the world,&#8221; it was a title that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>could be had for $30 billion. The subsequent
growth in these numbers reflects a fundamental tendency of capitalism to
accumulate and concentrate. If all the money in the world (currently somewhere
around 255 trillion US$) were divided equally among the eight billion people on
this planet, everyone would have a net worth a little under $32,000, which is
about one year&#8217;s tuition at an Ivy League school. So the likes of Bezos, Gates,
Putin and Mohammad bin Salman represents quite a bit more than their &#8220;share&#8221; of
the world&#8217;s wealth if we look at the planet as something akin to an asset that
belongs to us all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">Which means that these
disproportionate concentrations of wealth represent serious distortions of
power, including the power to concentrate food, shelter and physical wellbeing.
That is what politics is all about. In terms of wealth, Jeff Bezos has 4
million seven hundred thousand times that of the average human being. Dividing
Amazon&#8217;s HQ2 50,000 future employees among the residents of northern Virginia
and the Bronx is just one way to ensure that Bezos&#8217; absolute economic influence
in the metro DC and New York City regions will be magnified by significant
voting blocs of people for whom what is in Amazon&#8217;s interest translates into
their own welfare. It&#8217;s the old &#8220;What&#8217;s good for General Motors&#8221; formula
updated for the internet age. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">So the protection of wealth as
speech &#8211; again, the essence of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Citizens
United </i>&#8211; is intended to ensure that the concentration of capital will be
protected by the US Constitution. It&#8217;s a neat trick that Lewis Powell first
foresaw when he suggested the weaponization of the US legal system in his memo
to the US Chamber of Congress in August of 1971. Since then, the US right has
organized systematically to take over the courts, a process that has required
diligence, organization and a reasonably singled-minded focus for 48 effing
years to accomplish its goal with beer-boy Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s ascension to the
Supreme Court and the Senate&#8217;s wave of confirmations of Kavanaugh knock-offs to
fill a wide range of lower court vacancies that built up during the Obama
years, complements of Mitch McConnell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">By way of contrast, future Arkansas
governor Bill Clinton was so appalled at the defeat of George McGovern by
Richard Nixon in 1972 that he founded the Democrat Leadership Conference to
ensure that Democratic politics in the next generation would not be weighed
down by any socialist-leaning ideas from the American Left. Clinton&#8217;s vision of
a Democratic Party working in unison with liberal aspects of corporate America
has governed the party pretty much until this last election. Even now, the
Democrats find themselves with Chuck Schumer, a US Senator who represents
exactly one city block of lower Manhattan, and Nancy Pelosi, a committed
centrist, running the party in Congress, plus a passel of disparate candidates
hoping to run for the presidency in 2020, exactly two of whom (Bernie Sanders
and Elizabeth Warren) might be characterized as &#8220;on the left.&#8221; Most, although
not all, of the rest seems to be following the Obama formula of looking
progressive while operating as centrists &#8211; no &#8220;out&#8221; centrist has won the Electoral
College since 1996. Beto O&#8217;Rourke, a former Democratic Congressman who often
voted with the GOP and who can be characterized as a progressive only when
contrasted with the likes of Ted Cruz, is more typical of the field. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">In short, we have a relatively
organized American right, currently being held captive by a politician who
demonstrates that party&#8217;s contempt for professionalism in politics, against a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>broad array of candidates most of whom
actively do not want to challenge the Democratic party&#8217;s symbiotic relationship
with Wall Street, Hollywood and tech billionaires. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What an appealing choice!</i></b>
Further, the longer the Republicans can control the Senate and the executive
branch, the more damage they can do and the longer it will take any bottom-up
mass movement of Americans to overturn the right&#8217;s stranglehold on at least the
judiciary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">And did I mention that climate
change makes the problem more urgent every day?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">It&#8217;s enough to make a Chomskyian
out of a sane person, if only because Chomsky&#8217;s complaints about the rapacious
nature of capitalism tend to be reasonable. The real problem is how to undo
what has been done and overturn capital&#8217;s stranglehold on the polis. If you
don&#8217;t break that stranglehold, any short-term fixes will prove as fragile as
Barack Obama&#8217;s progressive heritage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">I think that the answer to the
first question has to lie in a series of Constitutional Amendments, the first
of which declares that money is not speech. But I wouldn&#8217;t want to call a
Constitutional Convention in the present political climate, would you? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Handmaid&#8217;s Tale, </i>here we come. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">Long term, it will take <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at least </i>the single-minded focus that
the GOP has demonstrated since 1971 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and </i>a
degree of organization that is the equal of the Republican right. One aspect of
that organization has to be a consistent never-ending critique of capital&#8217;s
role in society, precisely its capacity to concentrate power. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">It is that disequalibration that
underpins all the ways that capital empowers every form of privilege that
exists: white privilege, male privilege, straight privilege, age privilege, you
name it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">If I look at how Jeff Bezos employs
his wealth, he seems innocuous enough. Amazon&#8217;s corporate contributions have
skewed slightly Republican, but not significantly so, and Bezos himself has
mostly supported establishment Democrats. His ownership of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Post </i>has been hands-off<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>in pointed contrast with the Murdoch clan,
allowing professional journalists to do their jobs, even if a lot of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Post </i>contributors clearly suffer from
inside-the-Beltway conventional thinking. Bezos&#8217; more important political
contribution has been a $10 million gift to With Honor, a non-profit cofounded
by GOP strategist (and never-Trumper) David Gergen to elect more veterans to
Congress. Not all veterans are conservatives &#8211; Ron Dellums was a member of the
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as well as a former Marine. But the
overall impact of such giving, like hiring some 50,000 employees in two key
districts on the East Coast, seems poised to ensure the well-being of Amazon
itself as it remakes the commercial sale and distribution of products in a
web-driven world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">And progressive-sounding
politicians who do nothing to ensure the election of progressives at the state
and local level, as was the case with Obama, or who do nothing to disengage US
foreign policy from the interests of international corporations &#8211; as was also
the case with #44 &#8211; do little more than ensure that the worst immediate
consequences of capital may be inhibited while the deeper stranglehold of
wealth on history and privilege continue unabated. I think it&#8217;s arguable
whether or not Obama made the ascendancy of a racist and fascist to the
presidency inevitable, but he certainly helped to magnify the damage that man
can do while in office. Voter suppression campaigns in Wisconsin, Georgia and
elsewhere, are a direct result of Obama&#8217;s abandonment of state and local
politics while in office. The disarray of US foreign policy reflects the
reality that Obama&#8217;s international vision amounted to little more than
continuing the use of US military might (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this
time with drones!</i>) to bolster a global order tailor-made by and for US
corporations<a href="file:///C:/Users/rsillima/Documents/Crit/Blog/2019/Is%20power%20a%20function%20of%20speech.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>. When
Trump came to pull that house down, it was already in considerable shambles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;">The same year that Lewis Powell
penned his infamous memo to the Chamber of Commerce, he was nominated by
Richard Nixon to the US Supreme Court where he would serve for 16 years. He
died finally in 1998, some twenty years before the Kavanagh nomination ensured
that a nation that leans to the left will have its laws interpreted for a
generation by a court that leans markedly to the right. That&#8217;s a vision of a
long arc, a vision the left has lacked for a generation. With the growing
threat of global warming sure to push ever larger numbers of people to
increasingly desperate acts, it&#8217;s really now or never. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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career was Nelson Rockefeller. His Democratic counterpart, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, was in turn sponsored by David Rockefeller. The company the
Rockefellers inherited was Standard Oil, the global predecessor to Exxon. Kissinger
and Brzezinski ran foreign policy during the Nixon and Carter years, and were
replaced<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>during the Reagan era by Casper
Weinberger and George Schultz, both of whom ran divisions at Bechtel. Reagan&#8217;s
vice-president was the only CIA official to ever own his own oil firm,
George<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>HW Bush. Oil&#8217;s tight control of
foreign policy fit right into the rise of the automobile in post-WW2 America,
as well as the automobile&#8217;s greatest achievement, the American suburb and the
physical remaking of every metropolitan region in the nation. Why are the
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, now we know which
poets were bullies in high school. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I want to thank the several
dozen people who reached out to me, mostly back-channel, to convey their
support and to apologize for the behavior of their friends (my friends too,
more often than not) over this past weekend. Humanity often seems like a test to
see if it is possible to save the planet with such a deeply damaged species and
these groupthink mobs are a chance to observe that damage at its worst. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ironically, I received more Facebook
friend requests over the 48 hours after I posted my last message here than I&#8217;ve
ever received in one weekend. I haven&#8217;t been able to accommodate them all
because I&#8217;m at Facebook&#8217;s arbitrary limit of 5,000 &#8220;friends.&#8221;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Perhaps doubly ironically,
this blog received its <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4,000,000th</b>
visit over on Memorial Day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Obviously I knew that by
exaggerating the scale of my comparisons I would trigger some response and I
realize that some people think that scale itself must change the structure of
the dynamics. It doesn&#8217;t, which was precisely the point I was trying to make. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">More crucially, I do realize
that some people feel great pain if it appears that somebody outside of their
community does not take seriously the violence that has been &#8211; and continues to
be &#8211; done to them, which is a feeling that the question of scale can invoke.
That&#8217;s a fair criticism, and I hear it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Did I feel that I was making
light of anybody&#8217;s pain, or dismissing acts of violence? On the contrary, I
felt I was doing just the opposite, pointing out that fighting evil with evil
does not make it good. Signing the petition to the AWP &#8211; and the subsequent
actions of that organization -- seems to me unambiguously evil, and it lines up
with every other censorious act in history. Many of which have had horrific
consequences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">When the folks at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rolling Stock </i>publically wished Allen
Ginsberg &#8220;the gift of AIDS,&#8221; I felt that it was a despicable thing to do, and
said and wrote so at the time. But I did not think then, nor do I now, that it
would have been a good idea to attempt to prevent them from participating in
any of the normal duties of the profession of a poet. When friends of that
journal who sat by in utter silence during those acts of explicit homophobia
(and, elsewhere, anti-Asian racism) now tell me that I have &#8220;crossed the line,&#8221;
I have a complicated reaction. Part of me simply thinks that, no, when faced
with evil you have always chosen evil and you do so now. I should hope that I&#8217;m
the other side of that line. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But part of me simply feels
sadness. Simply because many of the folks attempting to pile on at the moment <span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">are
indeed poets and readers I think of as my friends. I should note that I don&#8217;t
believe either Vanessa Place or Kenny Goldsmith intended their projects to read
as racist, but both presented overdetermined content capable of being read and
received all sorts of ways. And anyone who has read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/citizen"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Citizen:
An American Lyric</span></a> </i>should recognize that just because somebody
didn&#8217;t intend an action to be read as racist </span>doesn&#8217;t necessarily absolve
it from racism. What Vanessa Place is being punished for is the crime of
polysemy without a license. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But we all should know that
race makes everybody in the US pretty crazy. The right&#8217;s paranoid obsession with
the idea that Obama might have been born in Kenya (he wasn&#8217;t) rather than the
idea that the current president of the United States grew up on the streets of
Jakarta (he did) is a good index of that. Now if only he governed like somebody
who learned the lessons of American empire on the streets of Indonesia&#8230;.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There is a reason I began my
note on Friday with the observation that the most important of all human rights
is the right to blaspheme. Without that right, every other human right, every
other human activity, can be (and eventually will be) curtailed. Human history
is littered with the carnage of that. If only Muslims get to determine how
Mohammed is portrayed, if only Putin gets to determine what his opponents may
say of him, if only the Philadelphia Police Department gets to determine what
Mumia Abu Jamal is or is not permitted to say in public, if only rapists aren&#8217;t
allowed to impugn their accusers, if only the mayor of Iguala gets to determine
what is said of his administration, if only the GOP gets to define marriage, or
to determine what can be said about climate change &#8211; the instances, once begun, quickly
become endless and it matters not one whit that some of these could have the
best intentions or represent the trauma of history on a given community. The
denial of genocide in France, the denial of genocide in Turkey, the denial of
genocide in Syria or in Palestine. Everybody, it seems, is willing to ban some
speech just so long as &#8220;good people&#8221; get to decide. The problem is that who
gets to decide almost always aligns with power. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One of the first political
activities of my youth, the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1964-5, was not
originally about speech. What the local business community was objecting to was
people picketing the restaurants of Berkeley and Oakland as diners came to eat
dinner. The pickets protested the refusal of these restaurants to hire people
of color. Diners might choose to eat elsewhere. At the time, the President of
the US Senate was Republican William Knowland, who also happened to own the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oakland Tribune, </i>a newspaper that relied
in part on ads from these very same restaurants. It was Knowland who asked the
University to halt the use of card tables at the Bancroft Street entrance to
the campus to sign up protestors for coming pickets. The speech that was being
curtailed was essentially a question, &#8220;Would you like to sign up for tonight&#8217;s
picket? It&#8217;s going to be at X restaurant at Y location.&#8221; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One can always argue that
there is something about the circumstances surrounding any attempt to shut down
an activity of speech that makes this case different. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It is always different</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>which is exactly why it is not. This
is not to erase historical context but rather to note that you cannot deploy a
weapon against one side that will not ultimately be deployed against everyone
else. And the history of power in Western Civilization suggests that
progressives should be especially careful not to deploy the weapons of
censorship that have been far more often used against them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Over the decades I&#8217;ve
consistently supported and given money to has been the American Civil Liberties
Union, the one organization I know that gets this problem. Often I&#8217;ve sent them
a contribution after they have taken an action, like supporting the right of Nazis
or the Klan to march, that I knew would cost them some of their traditional progressive backing. I&#8217;ve realized that if we don&#8217;t protect the rights of those we
disapprove of &#8211; say the Westboro Baptist Church &#8211; then we can&#8217;t expect to save
our own rights either. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What do I think should
happen? I would argue for more speech, more interaction, both on the part of
those who feel aggrieved and those who may have offended them (yours truly
included). Placing topics off limits and punishing people that, however
ineptly, may have crossed imagined lines is not a way to generate new or more
insights. It is certainly not a mechanism for getting people to listen or come
together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am reminded during all of
this that there have been times and places in US history when Irish, Italian
and Jewish Americans have all been <span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">categorized as non-white. One still sees the category
of &#8220;White Hispanic.&#8221; That may seem laughable in 2015, but within five miles of
my house is the grave of <a href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/blood-on-the-tracks-were-50-irish-immigrants-murdered-in-philadelphia-in-1832-268069.html"><span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #0D0D0D; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: &quot;lumm=95000 lumo=5000&quot;; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;">Duffy&#8217;s
Cut</span></a>, where in 1832 some 50 Irish railroad workers were slaughtered
in order to &#8220;curtail&#8221; an outbreak of cholera. By the standards of the US
census, my grandfather &#8220;became white&#8221; when he was adopted in 1892 and had his
name changed from Ambrose McMahon to Emerald Ambrose Silliman, but even </span>that
was only because officials did not recognize his new surname as a contraction
of the original Sillimandi. In 1891, the year my grandfather was born, the Klan
lynched 11 Italians taken from the jail in New Orleans. </span></div>
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