I'm starting this clip at what I consider the most important part of this interview, where she starts by talking about the crop of cultural destruction those like her have sown and the harvest of world collapse we are about to reap. She talks about what a tremendous moral error it was to make vice chic, and how the world is not only paying for it now, but will pay even more heavily in the near future. Joni's fans might find the whole thing interesting.
The last verse of her famous song "Woodstock" goes:
We are stardustMaybe we should rewrite that verse a little longer to:
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
back to the garden - "Woodstock" by Joni Mitchell, 1969
We are stardust
We are golden
Our only chance to survive
is growing our own food
so we've got to get ourselves
back to the garden.
There's a Pennsylvania Dutch bit of wisdom that goes "We grow old too soon, and smart too late".
ReplyDeleteI think it applies to Joni.....
Coyote's in the coffee shop
ReplyDeleteHe's staring a hole in his scrambled eggs
He picks up my scent on his fingers
While he's watching the waitresses' legs
He's too far from the Bay of Fundy
From appaloosas and eagles and tides
And the air conditioned cubicles
And the carbon ribbon rides
Are spelling it out so clear
Either he's going to have to stand and fight
Or take off out of here
I tried to run away myself
To run away and wrestle with my ego
And with this flame
You put here in this Eskimo
In this hitcher
In this prisoner
Of the fine white lines
Of the white lines on the free free way
yeah.
wisdom arriving after the need.
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