Mastodawn

I think this post has been in my drafts folder for about three years, occasionally being reworked, and finally – FINALLY – I've finished it. Joni Mitchell, Jello Biafra, and Peter Thiel all feature. Warning - it's REALLY LONG.

https://www.ianbetteridge.com/zen-fascist-wi/

Zen fascists will control you...

In 1979, a punk band from San Francisco recorded a song about the Governor of California. It was a joke, mostly. Jerry Brown was a Democrat, a Buddhist, a man who dated Linda Ronstadt and discussed limits and simplicity at a moment when America was in no mood for either.

Ian Betteridge

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Davey

@ianbetteridge I really enjoyed that. It all fits.

"Californian ideology" really does seem to be affecting us more than it should, and there's definitely that thing of thinking about and "improving" yourself all the time. From transcendental meditation to the quanticised self, it's like there's a concerted effort to stop us from worrying about each other rather than ourselves.