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My take on the song was that it was talking on the natural instinct of men(and women)but in a slightly diferent way.
The rules of sociaty are set in opposition to a natural way of life on purpose to inset a false mindset.A tamming of sociaty if you will.To control the masses.If you don't toe the line, you will be punished. The reason he went to prison may or may not have been a self defence situation but was not viewed that way by the rest of the lemmens or jury. Mother tried to get him to toe the line maybe because she knew where his natural instincts would lead him. Just my take on it. |
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When do we listen? When do we ignore? When do we follow? When do we split off? Not easy questions. What determines what we do? What is our nature? Can we make up our minds? It seems like it. But then sometimes, looking back like the singer, there does seem to be a fate unfolding; a tragic or wonderful working out that was not simply a product of decisions that could have gone a different way. |
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No, Im from northern Florida.(some joke and say its southern Georgia) |
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This is a song, not a novel. You're trying to force-fit some half-cocked literary theory where it doesn't go. Besides that, the songwriter is not trying to solve any problem, quite the opposite. He's pointing out the inevitability of things, no matter what he or anyone might have wanted.
I never said it was a novel, I said it is narrative. A song is a narrative. Stating who the characters are, and what brings them together(The Plot)is hardly a half-cocked notion in any narrative, novel, song. That is, if anything, a profoundly un or anti-christian theme, because the christian way would be to resolve the story with his repentance - which he manifestly does not do. You have no indication whatsoever that he regrets being in prison or would change his ways if he could. This supports my statement that x-ianity is a constant in this narrative. I did not say he was christian following person, but rather I meant to imply that christianity is a character role as a constant gauge for which to judge in this song. Rather he the narrator is for or against x-ianity, he is still influenced and referenced in this song. "God rest his soul". It's not deconstructing, that is a jew concept meant to compete with genuine analysis, which is what I offer. It stands to reason you a typical WN can't tell the difference and think critical thinking is perverse. That's why WN always lose to jews - they despise thinking. To a (removed to prevent crying), which will be a proxy for WN, thinking is like a sort of dirty trick. Only a low-down would resort to it. Instead of passive-aggressive carping and veiled jew-calling, why don't you either admit I'm right or come up with something better? Deconstructing is about taring down previously held beliefs, standards, and power sources so as to redistribute them. Redefining standards in art has meant that we all get to be artist and that each voice is as important as the other, even if a person is using rat shit as a medium. PFFF! With deconstructionism we all get to be artist except the people who are really good at art. For them they owe something to the rst of by just going away. The result is that Andy Whorewall is considered an equal or better(because of social relevance) to Rembrandt. PFFFF!x1000. The ultimate result has been the death of art, the death of society. I understand what you mean by genuine analysis. I understand that great art exists rather I do or not, rather I am hear to say so and rather I am here to participate in it as a reciever of its message. I have stood up in front of a room full of jews while defending my own displays of critical thinking, my genuine analysis of art in physical form for all to spit on, and throwing the words "Degenerative Art" back into the audience. It is no different of an experience than when yourself is being interviewed by seventy five people at once. People who hate you. When you accuse me of being "passive aggressive", do you mean to say I present myself like a victim so as to draw people in only to entrap them. I won't deny that to some degree I set people up for verbal combativeness, but it has nothing to do with passive and everything to do with predatory, in the primitive sense. I find what you did with this thread as passive aggressive. Your original statement that kicked off this thread, "Guess what I am thinking?" You set the situation for the audience failure only to tell them how stupid they are for not guessing what you are thinking. And then it all came down to what you were thinking is some long drawn out conversation no one else participated in. It was a joke, right? I guess we had to be there to get the humor. |
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Back on topic, sort of, compare "Mama Tried" to this more recent monstrosity by Gretchen Wilson and Merle Haggard-
(there's clearly nothing un-PC about this drivel) "Politically Uncorrect" I'm for the low man on the totem pole And I'm for the underdog God bless his soul And I'm for the guys still pulling third shift And the single mom raisin' her kids I'm for the preachers who stay on their knees And I'm for the sinner who finally believes And I'm for the farmer with dirt on his hands And the soldiers who fight for this land Chorus: And I'm for the Bible and I'm for the flag And I'm for the working man, me and ol' hag I'm just one of many Who can't get no respect Politically uncorrect (Merle Haggard) I guess my opinion is all out of style (Gretchen Wilson) Aw, but don't get me started cause I can get riled And I'll make a fight for the forefathers plan (Merle Haggard) And the world already knows where I stand Repeat Chorus (Merle Haggard) Nothing wrong with the Bible, nothing wrong with the flag (Gretchen Wilson) Nothing wrong with the working man me & ol' hag We're just some of many who can't get no respect (Merle Haggard) None (Gretchen Wilson) Politically uncorrect (Merle Haggard) Politically uncorrect |
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To me it's just these things:
1) a simple story of tragedy, told in few words, and it rhymes. 2) good melody 3) Haggard's voice/looks/demeanor come across as someone totally genuine (where the faggots in country music today come across as people trying hard to look genuine). |
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The point is to analyze the work. Your analysis is: religion is mentioned. Uh...ok. So what? There actually is a point that could be made there, but you didn't make it. Which is that religion, like parental advice, was a social influence that had no effect on the singer. Quote:
I pointedly said I'm against deconstruction and what I do is analysis. How did my analysis begin? With a celebration of the greatness of the song. That is the exact opposite of deconstruction, which seeks to do away with the greatness of the artist and pretent the art, or 'text' as they like to call it, is a product of social forces rather than individual brialliance. Which is complete bullshit. That song is great because of Haggard, and no other reason. By celebrating this great artist, I am doing the opposite of deconstruction. What I offer is critical analysis of what he is doing in his song. That is not to explain its greatness away, or to belittle the achievement, but to better appreciate and understand and celebrate it. Which should be clear, since I started in that vein, by mentioning the song's greatness in the first line. Quote:
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Basically I'm just irritated you don't truly understand what deconstruction is. Deconstruction is when you try to reveal the power relations that determine art works. It's a sort of neo-marxist idea. Marx thought all culture was a superstructure on the basic underlying economic relations in society. Deconstruction is a way revealing the supposed hidden power relations as determining artistic manifestations as everything else. I think it is a particularly unprofitable way to analyze things, and I hew to the older view of close reading in which you combine close textual analysis with knowledge of the author's life and times. I'm a traditionalist in that regard. And I also believe in subordinating all that to the impression the work makes, particularly if it's music. I get that from Oscar Wilde. What I don't like is any indication I don't respect genuine greatness, because I do. My point was to celebrate that song. Good analysis never detracts from something, it enhances understanding and enjoyment, at least for intelligent folk. Everybody can enjoy that song, just like a Shakespeare play. But these can be enjoyed on different levels, and that's where analysis comes in. We can all feel the emotion -- or maybe the working class guy actually feels the emotions MORE than the bourgeois-backgrounded like me, or the rich like (someone else). Because he knows better than me what it's like to be a criminal and thrown in jail and not trust or listen to anybody. Whereas the smarter man goes for the subtler questions I raised in my analysis. But even if I were trying to destroy something, a man or an idea, I would never call it 'deconstruction.' Although sometimes it might be fairly classed that way, in sense. I would still just see it as analysis, critical analysis. But kind of like the deconstructionists, I would go after motives, and that does involve some power-relations analysis. So that would be fairly similar, although coming from a different place. So if I were analyzing a conservative, or, say, Jim Goad, I would say, this is why he writes about (A) instead of (B), or this is why he writes about (A) in this way rather than in this other way. And together he and those willing to make the same vital concessions are used by a moneyman (Taki, say) to put out a faux-white-right publication, and thereby control the opposition to the judeo-communist left. If I do that kind of thing, then yes, I'm sort of doing what the deconstructionists do. But really, I think it's best to consider deconstruction just the literary-analytical equivalent of political cant, and sneer at it. We do criticism and analysis, to the best of our ability. There's no new critical form to come up with. It's a matter of how well we can work within that form. Legitimate new forms are far between; humanity has been around for millions of years, this aint their first rodeo. New forms are for new technologies, not for written stuff. The literary canons are established beyond serious questioning, for the most part. Quote:
If people are too shy to hop in when I'm being obnoxious, they are missing the spirit of the forum. No one has to agree with me here. I really don't like too much agreement. The forum should be a lot of fighting - but stylized fighting. Not stupid gossipping and lying and false allegations. It can even be polite. Quote:
The problem is, and I get knocked down to earth when I try this, and this will be found insulting, but we simply can't beat the jews with people who are not able to analyze at a very high level. Analytical ability can be displayed in 1,000 forms, and song analysis is one good place to try it, since songs are nice and bite-sized, yet can offer the complexity we need to truly test our ability. Someone give me a true deconstruction of Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried." Explain it away as the product not of individual genuis, but of social forces, including those promoting the song and choosing its story, meaning and message. Last edited by Alex Linder; July 11th, 2012 at 07:37 PM. |
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'Deconstruct' is a basically a propaganda term for destroy. Deconstructionists try to destroy literature by defaming the author in order to 'disappear' him, and to destroy his work by reducing it to a mere text without any inherent and ascertainable meaning. 'Deconstruction' is a school of tendentious criticism based on the bogus ideas that authors don't matter and texts don't have ascertainable meanings. Deconstruction is pseudo-analysis pretending to be a higher form of real analysis. It is the marxising of literary analysis, and is used only by leftist academic demagogues and others who hate literature because the best of it was produced by white men, who are a class the cultural marxists or neo-marxists hate for ideological reasons. Deconstruction is a way to disparage, using a pseudo-objective form of literary criticism that is nothing more than the same old shitty judeo-leftist politics in yet another drag (but this time liberal arts drag rather than the pseudo-scientific drag in which it outfits 'global warming'). Just as 'global warming' is imitation science, 'deconstruction' is imitation literary analysis. Western White men acknowledge and appreciate true greatness; they do not disparage it. Jews seek to destroy what is great because they are ungreat themselves, they are envious, and they are full of hate. White men who fall into their academic clutches are to be pitied, as they are paying their worst enemies to deracinate and dupe them, and the idiots think they're being educated rather than inculcated. Last edited by Alex Linder; July 11th, 2012 at 07:41 PM. |
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Have you ever been in a situation where everyone was telling you one thing, but your brain and heart were telling you the opposite? That's sort of what he's really driving at in this song. We all face the challenge he faced growing up, to a greater or lesser degree. Even if we're not born rebels, we still, all of us, occasionally feel tension between what society/parents/friends tell us to do, and what we want to do. Through Haggard's experience we get this eternal problem on a grander scale, perhaps evoking fear or pity (per Aristotle) or relief and catharsis - or even recognition and epiphany, I suppose. It's a story about him, and in that sense necessarily particular, but it pertains to all of us. Whether we like the song or not. |
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Country was basically adult music, as I take it. I have written a couple times this sort of song analysis on original VNN, and one time got a lengthy letter from someone with great knowledge of country's origins who contended, if I recall, that the very genre is basically a music-industry invention. That may be, but at least up until a point, there was a good deal more adult seriousness in the songs they put out to the mainstream than what we've seen the last twenty years. PC is so well entrenched, and this is a point basically no one but me has ever made, not saying, just saying, and I've made it repeatedly for years, that PC has gone far beyond simply conditioning people to have the right attitude toward this or that - that battle is over. It now is primarily concerned with destroying the tools. I don't know what the right metaphor is, that's not my strength to think them up, but say buildings and tools. PC has destroyed the castles of its enemy - now the forces driving it are trying to deprive their enemies of even the tools you'd need to build a castle; and beyond that, remove from their mind the very conception of castles. I've made this point most notably in relation to public schools. Where people are taught not just the right attitudes, but they are taught to regard generalization itself, the ability to notice patterns, as inherently wrong and morally evil. And of course they're also taught to not be able to read using the look-say method, to get them to hate reading. So if they hate reading and they think that pattern-noticing/generalizing which is thinking is immoral, they are mentally undone. They are mentally unable to develop any kind of defense against jew brainwashing. This is exactly what has happened. Now we're talking about country music. Country music is not inherently political except in the deepest sense, which is that it covers life in its deepest moments. But what it is, should be, used to be, traditionally, is music for adults. It deals with adult problems - loss, regret, failure, nostalgia. And of course everything else, but there was always a fair share of love and loss in it - I mean that's what life is largely about, as we are transient creatures in an evanescent world. But old country could reflect on any particular portion of this world - and fully. The man or woman written about could both be wrong. Today only the man can be wrong. Only the man can cheat. Only the man can wrong the woman, get in the way of her dreams, fail to appreciate her. The woman is never the bad guy. And this is not because of the songwriters, it's a very deliberately foisted PC amputation of human experience in line with the dogmas of feminism, which of course serves the master jewish agenda. It dovetails with the divorce court and every other currently jewed social institution. Do not imagine that is by accident, it is by design. No one seems to see this, but it's exactly what's going on. Today's artistis are not any worse singers or songwriters than George Jones, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, they are simply forced, like political writers for mainstream conservative outlets, to toe a political line set by illiberal leftist jews pushing an anti-White, anti-man agenda. If they want money, they have to play along; and if they want integrity, they have to play alone. So what can they write about? Either how great women are. How dumb bad stupid men are. Or how much they like sex and partying. And pretty much nothing else. This makes country music not technically bad, as the voices and bodies and instruments are tighter than ever, but it makes it jejune, boring, simplistic and childish. Maybe teenaged at best. And one doesn't go to country for teenaged hormones -- that's rock's territory -- one goes to it for adult sadness, loss, regret - and some positive stuff too, but non-sexual stuff. The only adult contemporary country music appeals to is 30s single women who are starting to wonder if they're fading and need reassurance from Keith Urban. And rural boobs whenever their bodies are needed for call-up in the latest round of jewish wars. As in jewish tv, the only time men are respectable and respected in modern country music is when they're joining the army to fight for Israel. (Toby Keith is surely among the top ten defense contractors benefiting from the WTC wars.) It's sad, because country music is a good form. Last edited by Alex Linder; July 11th, 2012 at 07:45 PM. |
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Interesting, never heard of Terry Reid before, not bad. Reminded me of Jagger's drag-lip't "Wild Horses," just a little bit.
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