What a fantastic article, I am a huge Dylan fan and hadn't looked at that song like that before. Thanks for that. Lines like the below take on a new meaning after reading your article,
Lies that life is black and white spoke from my skull, I dreamed
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instant that I preach
The road back to freedom lies mainly within. It will not come from shouldering a weapon and looking for bad guys to shoot; that's the road to becoming the bad guy you hate. It will not come from screaming angry words on a street corner or online. It is a quiet understanding, a centeredness
Growth in consciousness is possible only in intellectual and spiritual freedom, that is, when the self is freed from managing or judging the lives of others. The better world begins with that man who attends to his inner freedom.
I was recently thinking about another Dylan song, The Disease of Conceit, that explains to me what has happened over the last 3 years. Those who refuse to rule themselves are usually
bent on ruling others. Those who can rule themselves usually
What a fantastic article, I am a huge Dylan fan and hadn't looked at that song like that before. Thanks for that. Lines like the below take on a new meaning after reading your article,
Lies that life is black and white spoke from my skull, I dreamed
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instant that I preach
Maybe Dylan came to realise, as stated in https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/to-defend-liberty-cultivate-your
The road back to freedom lies mainly within. It will not come from shouldering a weapon and looking for bad guys to shoot; that's the road to becoming the bad guy you hate. It will not come from screaming angry words on a street corner or online. It is a quiet understanding, a centeredness
Growth in consciousness is possible only in intellectual and spiritual freedom, that is, when the self is freed from managing or judging the lives of others. The better world begins with that man who attends to his inner freedom.
I was recently thinking about another Dylan song, The Disease of Conceit, that explains to me what has happened over the last 3 years. Those who refuse to rule themselves are usually
bent on ruling others. Those who can rule themselves usually
have no interest in ruling others.
There’s a whole lot of people suffering tonight
From the disease of conceit
Whole lot of people struggling tonight
From the disease of conceit
Comes right down the highway
Straight down the line
Rips into your senses
Through your body and your mind
Nothing about it that’s sweet
The disease of conceit
There’s a whole lot of hearts breaking tonight
From the disease of conceit
Whole lot of hearts shaking tonight
From the disease of conceit
Steps into your room
Eats your soul
Over your senses
You have no control
Ain’t nothing too discreet
About the disease of conceit
There’s a whole lot of people dying tonight
From the disease of conceit
Whole lot of people crying tonight
From the disease of conceit
Comes right out of nowhere
And you’re down for the count
From the outside world
The pressure will mount
Turn you into a piece of meat
The disease of conceit
Conceit is a disease
That the doctors got no cure
They’ve done a lot of research on it
But what it is, they’re still not sure
There’s a whole lot of people in trouble tonight
From the disease of conceit
Whole lot of people seeing double tonight
From the disease of conceit
Give ya delusions of grandeur
And a evil eye
Give you the idea that
You’re too good to die
Then they bury you from your head to your feet
From the disease of conceit