Bob Dylan receives Medal of Freedom

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Someone help me with the concept of the "Medal of Peace;" how many kilos of dope does a man have to smoke before he can be called a man... Oh, wait...

Martin Ent Inc wrote: He was a great song writer but couldn't stand his singing.

Yep, he should have sold songs instead of sung them.

EddieWess wrote:
Oddly eneough. If you read the words in context you might read them as not really being about drugs (I don't think they are) but about being persecuted.

That's the brilliance of poetry --- it has a number of possible meanings.

Philosophers can and likely will debate the meaning of Dylan for decades to come.

I'm sure he thinks that's kind of humorous.

What's the Medal of Peace? I thought this was about the Medal of Freedom, although I don't agree with a bunch of entertainers and novelists getting this medal.

Say what you want, it is pretty smart.

He knows that former hippies vote - that's all.

This is about appealing to former hippies - that is why the freedom was removed - it was for sale, they sold it out - that's what hippies do..or did.

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote: From CNN...

Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday bestowed the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, on 13 people from all walks of life, hailing them for changing the world for the better.

They also affected his life, the nation's first African-American president noted.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/29/us/medal- ... ?hpt=hp_t1

Well, they’ll stone ya when you’re walkin’ ’long the street
They’ll stone ya when you’re tryin’ to keep your seat
They’ll stone ya when you’re walkin’ on the floor
They’ll stone ya when you’re walkin’ to the door
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned!

No comment needed.

I am curious if people think he wrote this about weed or about oppression? I always hear weed when I hear the song, but reading it made me think of oppression. Anyone have any documentation to say either way?

It has nothing to do with drugs. In 1966 after British and American radio stations refused to play this song Dylan released a statement in '66 sayin' "I never have and never will write a drug song." what he was saying in this song had two meanings. 1st was pretty ironic. He was saying know matter what you write a song about anymore, as long as your from the Haight Ashbury District, critics will automatically assume that you are write about drugs or something else 'negitve' toward american society. He was basically saying that they'll stone you metaphorically with rocks. The 2nd meaning was that people should get stoned on anything if you were openminded enough about it. Example being getting stoned on music.

Read more at http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/ ... bzeGQrR.99

Raees wrote: It has nothing to do with drugs. In 1966 after British and American radio stations refused to play this song Dylan released a statement in '66 sayin' "I never have and never will write a drug song." what he was saying in this song had two meanings. 1st was pretty ironic. He was saying know matter what you write a song about anymore, as long as your from the Haight Ashbury District, critics will automatically assume that you are write about drugs or something else 'negitve' toward american society. He was basically saying that they'll stone you metaphorically with rocks. The 2nd meaning was that people should get stoned on anything if you were openminded enough about it. Example being getting stoned on music.

Read more at http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/ ... bzeGQrR.99

In an interview with Playboy in 1963, Dylan explained what opium, hash and pot meant to him: "Now these things aren't drugs; they just bend your mind a little. I think everybody's mind should be bent once in a while." He put it slightly differently in the lyric to Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 the opening track of Blonde on Blonde, which was released as a single but banned from the airwaves in 1966 for its provocative refrain: "Everybody must get stoned."

http://www.ukcia.org/potculture/64/dylan.html

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