[FM] Re: Doomed to repeat it (politics thread)

[Tom Neff]

--On Wednesday, August 18, 2004 1:17 PM -0400 BRICKRADIO at aol.com wrote:
> Tom Neff said:
>> I know that we like to
>> look at daguerrotypes of The Weavers and other 17th-century >acts...
>
> Sorry Tom.  What's that they say about those who ignore history?

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George 
Santayana (1905)

>  The 50s
> were just a heartbeat ago. Jan

My point was, and is, that the vast majority of folk music being performed 
today is not remotely political, and much of what is political or activist 
is not partisan.  I joked about the relative antiquity of The Weavers, who 
of course remain in many of our hearts, but it does not affect what I was 
really getting at.