Comments on: Dylan’s Outhouse – Smells Like ‘Rank’ Hypocrisy

By: Bert Convy

Bert Convy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:41:14 +0000

Bob Dylan is a god and he can have a smelly porta potty if he wants… get over it.

By: Jake_Was_Here

Jake_Was_Here — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:58:26 +0000

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." —Sirius Black

"A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person." —Dave Barry

By: Dr. Aharon Zorea

Dr. Aharon Zorea — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:40:43 +0000

This flap about the outhouse is more sensational than news-worthy. People love to catch folks at hypocrisy – the left frequently seeks to "out" conservatives for any sexual scandal (while ignoring similar habits among the left). This time, apparently, conservatives get to "out" a liberal. There are a lot better examples of hypocrisy than this. The blanket categorization of Dylan as some kind of environmentalist-Marxist-Anarchist just because he inspires environmentalist-Marxist-Anarchists is fallacious.
Yes… I know he said nice things about Obama… but does that taint him as a diehard liberal? Dylan also made fantastic Christian albums in the late 1970s/early 1980s – how do they fit in? Dylan does not talk much about his politics, so the assertion of political hypocrisy is a little tenuous.
Not to sound overly radical but …. is it possible that the outhouse is a temporary problem that will be fixed by some – as yet unknown – longer term solution already in the works?

By: Dr. Aharon Zorea

Dr. Aharon Zorea — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:39:20 +0000

I appreciate the article's general indictment against 1960's era social activists who do not recognize their own hypocrisy, this particular case just does not seem to fit the general stereotype. The first clue is that the author's assertion of what "Maggies Farm" means was taken from a lib professor's interpretation – there was no indication that Dylan agreed with these pretentious interpretations by the "Dylan scholars."
Dylan is routinely categorized by others – his critics and fans alike – and yet, with the same consistency, he also breaks the categorization with a new incarnation. Perhaps the real "Dylan secret" is that Dylan has always been a musician first, and a social influence second – perhaps even unintentional.

By: Marvin Arlington

Marvin Arlington — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:40:54 +0000

They'll stone you when your outhouse starts to stink

What do you think? Because you become an establishment icon you don't get stoned?

I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned

Even the writer of this zit of an article
Lefties tearing down the man?
Is the author in favor of the things the folks were protesting against?
Integration? McCarthyism?
That America doesn't exist anymore, sweetie.

Only in your mind
Which sadly is lost

By: Rob De Witt

Rob De Witt — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:46:20 +0000

Face it folks, rocknroll has been marketed like cheap beer ever since Tom Parker took over Elvis. Presented as "Stickin It To The Man" (i.e., "Annoying Your Parents), rocknroll is about as countercultural as U.S. Steel.

Wotta shuck.

By: RandyChandler

RandyChandler — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:45:43 +0000

Let Bobby have the last word:

They say prayer has the power to help
So pray from the mother
In the human heart an evil spirit can dwell
I'm trying to love my neighbor and do good unto others
But oh, mother, things ain't going well

— Bob Dylan

By: RaggedGlory

RaggedGlory — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:26:13 +0000

I enjoyed your article, and shared a link to it on our Bob Dylan message board.

By: El_Gordo

El_Gordo — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:08:30 +0000

While it would be nice if Dylan provided decent facilities to people working for him, he is not exactly a poster child for cookie-cutter liberalism, as many commenters here stated so eloquently. May I present a better target?

"It's a scandal — 'Mr. Civil Rights' is killing our civil rights," said David Emminger, whose home is directly behind the toilet — which is apparently intended for use by employees of the entertainer best known for his 1960s-era protest songs.

It´s a civil right to be free of unpleasent smells? I guess that makes him a Rosa Parks for our times? And that portable toilet is a veritable Tuskegee experiment, right? How full of yourself can you be? How long until he brings up the Holocaust?

Defining everything that happens to be in your interest as a "right", even a "civil right", is one of the great idiocies of our time and it´s a liberal thing. The constant search for heroic victimhood is a cancer in our society and it´s a liberal thing.

By: El_Gordo

El_Gordo — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:46:30 +0000

Or check out the fine article "Ibsen and His Discontents" by Theodore Dalrymple. Never mind the misspelling in the url, it´s here:

http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_urbanities-...