Joni Mitchell: Big Yellow Taxi. (From the album Ladies of the Canyon (1970)). Heres one of the great eco warning messages of the era - with the immortal lines: Took all the trees - put em in a tree museum. - Then they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em... ; ‘Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?’ This along with similar warnings from songs like The Eve of Destruction (1965), In the Year 2525 (1969) etc..., and movies like Silent Running (1972) are partly what shallow minded critics of our era see as indications that the generations of the time were tree-hugging, idealistic, deluded nature lovers, whose ‘harbinger of doom’ warnings about the where the world was headed if humanity didn’t change its ways were motivated purely by drug misuse and ‘airy-fairy’ philosophies, and that we were out to undermine the march of science, industry and economic progress. Post 70s generations scoff (in every sense of the word), mock and jeer as they submerge themselves in hedonistic indulgence… Meanwhile the planet and society is disintegrating around them - and they shrug their shoulders with a who cares - thats progress attitude... (and still do - as predicted by the movie Silent Running...) Well now... The sky has a hole in it; sunshine (which my parents always told me was good for me!) can now kill you; we have to buy our water (you know? - that stuff that falls out of the sky?) in bottles from a supermarket; and the T. V news now contains daily reports on air quality (WHAT???). To quote Don McLeans song Vincent (1971) out of context, but it still fits: They did not listen - theyre not listening still... Perhaps they never will... (M). Textural content: ©Copyright MLM Arts 02.11.2013
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 17:50:53 +0000
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