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jeromechickenbone:
My pops used to play this song all the time.  I think it's every bit as relevant now as it was when he was in Vietnam in the 60's.

http://youtube.com/v/bmysVoRBgyA&autoplay=0

Elevz:
Good song, and that video was nicely put together. I think this might just stay relevant for a damn long time  :-\

AndrE16686:
Word.....word.     

:grumpy:  :'(   :cow:

Trauma-san:
I love the song.  Always have... but how can you say it's relevant, when in the 60's he was saying we were on the eve of destruction?  It didn't happen... as a matter of fact, the troubles we're going through now pale in comparison to the shit that happened just 40 years ago!  Imagine how bad life was in the civil war, it was much worse then than it was in the 60's.  Imagine how bad the depression was in the 20's, you had people literally starving to death in the streets. 

People are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too narcisistic when it comes to this shit.  I'll put it like this: Right now, the world is in better shape than it has *ever* been.  A larger percentage of people have good lives now than at any other time in history.  I'm thankful I was born into such a great country at such a great time in History.  That we have a woman and a black man effectively slugging it out for the presidency of the WORLD I think speaks to what I just said. 

jeromechickenbone:
What do you mean how can I say it's relevant?  Are you completely oblivious to the world around you?  Our country is on the verge of going completely bankrupt, we're involved in an endless war built on debunked lies against a faceless enemy, we're responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands (maybe millions?) of innocent people in a 3rd world country, most all of our politicians are lying, greedy pigs, we're devolving into a welfare state, middle eastern businessman are quitely bailing out (aka buying) numerous failing banks (and Nasdaq) and the media says nothing, recession is all but a foregone conclusion, etc etc etc I could type all day.

Yeah I'm happy that I'm all comfortable with what I have and what I've accomplished, but if you don't think there is some massively fucked up shit going on and eventually there's going to be hell to pay then I'd tell you to wake the fuck up.

Yeah, the world didn't end in the 60's.  I'm not sure if you recall, but there was massive civil unrest in those days.  Americans were very conscious of what was going on and they spoke out against it and made real change.  We may not be on that level yet, but I think there are lots of parallels that make this song completely relevant today.

You say our quality of life has improved since the Civil War and I agree to a certain extent.  I also think we have devolved as a country in many ways since then however.  You look at the majority of presidential candidates, they are big government socialists regardless if they are Repulican or Democrat, it's deemed kooky to follow the Constitution, it's basically been criminalized and disregarded.  Civil liberties are being completely thrown out of the window.  We are turning into what our founders were trying to escape from when they came here.  We are on a very dangerous path.

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