…Jimi struggled through the start of a set, halted and allegedly said “I’ve been dead a long time”. Dramatic or apocryphal, it was maybe in the end just the drugs and the decor. Hendrix was a very hard working, talented person and a generally nice guy, and that rare thing in a celebrity, a patriot. Hendrix being a Screaming Eagle of the 101st Airborne an’ all. Ok, he dug it due in large part for the thrilling experience of parachuting and it also seemed like a good opportunity to his alternatives at the time.

Jimi sometimes startled his peers when he spoke patriotically about his own country and how Communists especially in South East Asia er, sucked, which they did and still do of course. He also disturbed those unfamiliar with such things, when he spoke of the many bigotry’s he had long suffered and not just from white folks, but from almost everyone. People misunderstand the deeply profound art of Jimi’s expression, that was both raw, subtle, tender and furious and draw their own fashionable, often one dimensional conclusions. For Jimi, a love of his country was natural like he was, while sometimes terribly problematic, nuanced and even stark but never stupidly hateful. Thus his art is lasting…the only thing Hendrix really lacked was enough time.

“I’ll always touch you…can’t you hear me, calling you?”

And we’ve been dead a long time to how deluded and bankrupt general perception or the lack thereof, has become.

And Hendrix, like any subject I’ve ever got very interested in, could not be discerned from the MSM at all. You can always feel the fingerprints of the last journalist who went to the file drawer and the one before and before that, all repeating the same photocopied lack of insight and passively received lameness. Real value came entirely from literature and the Net.

“I should have quit you, a long time ago. Now you got me crying, crying on the killing floor”.

And this is almost entirely my feelings regards the MSM, or the Main Stream Media, Hollywood, many celebrities and most of those with a repeated public voice. I feel a similar kinda repulsion with our degraded, convoluted, and often compromised education system. Like the idiot hippie, they have surprisingly similar views often completely unmoored from reality.

The basic equation that is now commonly pushed is that the Western Canon is mostly bad and pretty much entirely responsible for all the ills of the world, when the contrary is the empirical truth. The answer to the ills of the world is the spread of the Western Tradition, nothing else….

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