“I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something
Something I can use
People love it when you lose
They love dirty laundry”
For those of you who enjoy the music of the Eighties you may recognize the writing of Don Henley and his hit song Dirty Laundry.
As a teenager Henley’s voice resonated with my generation as the man once called Golden Throat recorded “The Boys of Summer” and then delved deeper with “The End of the Innocence” and “The Heart of the Matter”.
The dichotomy of Henley (Texas born yet liberal leaning) is an interesting one.
For those of you who have been with me for a while you know I do not practice hero worship.
I can and do appreciate the strengths of others while not accepting or engaging in their flaws.
Henley is a perfect example of someone who communicated what millions thought and felt in one venue, while supporting propaganda (knowingly or not) in another.
It is striking that someone so in tune with many parts of the human condition known as life, and the absurdity of the “media”, would still support the politicians who manipulate and lie to said media which in turn lies to the citizenry.
This is a linear equation gone wildly awry.
I digress.
“Dirty Laundry” splays and fillets the “press” (as well as those who follow blindly).
Many progressives will attach “Dirty Laundry” to a network like Fox News and even Henley himself has reportedly made comparisons to one Rupert Murdoch and Dirty Laundry.
Of course this is absurd as the song was written in the Eighties while Fox didn’t appear on the scene until the Nineties but one should never allow facts to get in the way of a good liberal tale.
Does Fox fall under the intended umbrella of the lyrics by Henley?
Yes and yes but it is hypocritical (and factually incorrect) to attach only Fox, besides as stated earlier, the song was written in a prior decade.
There were plenty of three letter or alphabet networks spinning woes long before F-O-X.
Let us continue.
“You don’t really need to find out
What’s going on
You don’t really want to know
Just how far it’s gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry”
Henley almost appears Nostradamus like with this stanza as it explains the last thirty years.
Just live for the now.
“You don’t really want to know just how far it’s gone”.
My guess is too many are going to find out in a very painful way “just how far it’s gone”…if they haven’t already.
This line unto itself is poignant and yet telling of how many Americans have simply tuned out, of not only society, but the responsibility of their own survival.
Instead they’ve decided to just leave well enough alone and EAT their Dirty Laundry.
Through apathy, ignorance, crushing debt, and an unwillingness to live by any moral code they’ve become their own oppressors.
By way of their own volition (or lack thereof) they will now live with the “lack of fruit” that is provided without labor.
A “let them eat cake” scenario created by their own hand as well as a complete reversal of the Invisibility of Adam Smith.
Combined with Newtonian Law or “action reaction” philosophy the demise of the cake eaters is of course of their own accord.
Truly stunning how many “college educated voters” are reportedly backing Hillary Clinton.
Then again it shows the decrepit education they received.
Hypochondriacal Studies or the Philosophy of the Dilatory doesn’t cover Free Will or Freedom and the entire concept of seventy-two virgins only brings me disgust with those who allow and enable this moronic mindset.
“We can do the Innuendo
We can dance and sing
When it’s said and done
We haven’t told you a thing
We all know that Crap is King
Give us dirty laundry”
The politicians have danced and sung, the innuendo is done, a new race has begun as living under debt is in full bloom.
Welcome to Progressive-Liberal-Compassionate Conservative-Democratic-Socialism or otherwise known as…Oppression.
“Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down”
Jason Kraus
www.aleadernotapolitician.com
