Phenomenal, I need to listen to this a few more times there’s so much going on

Yodeling cowboy of ancient England!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Well this is something. I’m reminded of Leonard Cohen’s song, Closing Time.

I live down the road from Vic and I can’t speak for him but I’d travel as far north as Denver or as far south as Santa Fe.

I’m so pleased I’ll still be able to see your face and hear your tunes.

stunning!

So sadly true.

Big Red on Iron Country 101.9FM played this on the morning show today. True story, very well done. 😢

That song sums it up for me and so many others!!

I am here, followed you here from TikTok! I just can't go to Meta..

Woof the day that shall not be names is tuesday Eve :P

“Animal Farm” is our reality in the good ‘ole U.S.A. 🤬💩

Great tune. Thanks.

Just “discovered” you on Spotify a couple days ago. Fucking beautiful man. Keep it up.

Amazing!!!

Great song my man

I love it sir❤ thank you

Good stuff. But, nah. Them eggs bout to be affordable.

Well by damn found you over here! Hello my favorite musician!

And stop the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours.

Pushing buttons & he doesnt get inaugurated til Jan 20th🎉

Is this a full song?

Cool beans. I got to share it first

Now tell me how to get off the damn plane. I NEED TO EXIT.

Loved the song - and the mini back-story at the end!!

Albany, NY… Today I saw your name on Vic’s post. Checked out your music. And became an instant fan.

Good one, thanks. 👍🤦🏻‍♀️👏

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“The present day shows with appalling clarity how little able people are to let the other man’s argument count, although this capacity is a fundamental and indispensable condition for any human community. Everyone who proposes to come to terms with himself must reckon with this basic problem. For, to the degree that he does not admit the validity of the other person, he denies the “other” within himself the right to exist --- and vice versa. The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.” C.G. Jung, The Collected Works of C.G. Jung "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." Aldous Huxley "Until you appreciate something crucial - It is incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who counts as an Us, who as a Them. The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems - sometimes fear, sometimes ridicule, sometimes contemptuous pity, sometimes savagery. Brains distinguish between an Us and a Them in a fraction of a second. Subliminal processing of a Them activates the amygdala and insular cortex, brain regions that are all about fear, anxiety, aggression, and disgust. Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday." Robert M. Sapolsky "The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back. Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed. The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero." Bill Moyers "A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind. Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness. The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal. The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat, rapacious capitalism is celebrated on reality television shows where you betray and manipulate and push aside your competitors for fleeting fame and money. These are sick values, but they’re disseminated through corporate media in almost every program you watch. We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the self - an undiluted hedonism and narcissism. That has become a very effective way to divert our attention while the country is reconfigured into a kind of neofeudalism, with a rapacious oligarchic elite and an anemic government that no longer is able to intercede on behalf of citizens but cravenly serves the interests of the oligarchy itself." Chris Hedges "Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle. A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized. The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you've got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus. The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information. The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality, they may set themselves to change it. The best defense against democracy is to distract people. That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital. Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them." Noam Chomsky "A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of life with all of its defining prejudices. It thereby provides an appropriate and legitimate outlet for one's anger. The authority of an inerrant Bible that can be readily quoted to buttress this point of view becomes an essential ingredient to such a life. When that Bible is challenged, or relativized, the resulting anger proves the point categorically." John Shelby Spong "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold. If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion. Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments. The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men. The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet. There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause. Then religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state. Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power. There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war." Reinhold Niebuhr “The biggest guns and the heaviest industry with its relatively high living standard are not enough to check the psychic infection spread by religious fanaticism.” Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self

Thoughts and prayers to you and yours, and I hope you never need them in this American way. Keep on singing the truth.

Keep up the good work.

Your work/art is so needed in these times of hate and divisiveness.

Vic sent me! I'm in Central Florida.

Vic Meyers Old White Guy sent me to your channel. I'm glad he did. Love the song!

🎶😔🎶 I love your content. Thank you for sharing in these uncertain times. 💔❤️‍🩹❤️

Dude, amazing "when you sold your country, did you get a good deal" cut through me like a knife, shivers. Really great stuff

I love what you do

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This song is frankly brilliant. I've been listening to it on repeat for hours.

I'm on Cape Cod. I thank Vic for having me find you. I just watched Green Bananas and wrote a comment. Thank you for sharing your gift.

Awesome!!!

Yes. Do some concerts. Come to LA/Long Beach Ca😊

Vic sent me! I’m in Austin.

Golden, CO

Bucksport, ME

Sierra Madre, CA .... next to Pasadena, CA .... 75 years young .... PEACE

Nice hat!😊 Eat a bunch of peaches man…

This makes me so sad because it's so freaking true and most don't even realize how big of hypocrites they are.

This most def needs to go viral. The state of American Christianity is sad. This song would weird and confusing if it weren’t so dang spot on, unfortunately! Fantastic work, thank you for making this and sharing it! Sooooo needed for right here, and right now 👏👏👏