Triadic Philosophy

2/29/12

I'd say this is warning enough

Israel Won't Warn U.S. Before Iran Strike - Digg: "npr.org — Israeli officials say they won't warn the U.S. if they decide to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, according to one U.S. intelligence official familiar with the discussions. The pronouncement, delivered in a series of private, top-level conversations, sets a tense tone ahead of meetings in the coming days at the White House and Capitol Hill."

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Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes

Bob Dylan's "License to Kill" attains its greatest relevance now

Bob Dylan's songs are a total work and criticism that fails to see this, celebrating some halcyon era of great Dylan followed by lapses, misses the reality.
"License to Kill" attains its greatest relevance now when Acts of Valor is splayed across the movie screens showing us the dehumanizing reality of our world. Yes I know that without Seals we would not have gotten Osama. But I feel the price we may pay is too great. "License to Kill" is an accurate evocation of a world where we foist off on those who make it through the training the ... license to kill.
This has become the new war, along with the person-less drones.
We have no ethic for this, no understanding of its karmic potential.
I shall listen again and again to this song for a nudge in the direction of sanity in the insane world where a war on drugs is deemed sane. And if we are not appropriately manipulated, add in armageddon terror scenarios.
UPDATE
Michael Gray disses this song without apparently being willing to react to it as all songs should be reacted to - not with an effort to say what Dylan was or was not doing but with a communication of what the song means to Michael Gray.
The omnipotent and tendentious critic is dead. A waste of ink and irrelevant.
Bob Dylan License to Kill on Spotify
Lyric for License to Kill at BobDylan.com
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