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Been Too Long at the Fair

"Been Too Long at the Fair" from Give It Up by Bonnie Raitt, 1972 on youtube. A lot of Hippies I knew back then loved this album. Truly a gem.

It was years after this album that Bonnie had a couple of hits. And they won't prepare you for this album, which is at times raucous and at times tender, but always real. Listen for the slide guitar on some tracks. That's Bonnie, and she's stellar.

Genuine Hippie Sez:

Karl Marx?: Wrong about the future, right about the past.

In other words, his critique of capitalism was good (not that anybody reads him), but his predictions about how things would go were not-- communist utopia was not the inevitable result of the dialectical movement of history.

Dialectical Materialism is stupid. It comes from too much reverence for Hegel and too much reverence for science.

Science is great. I love science. Some of my best friends have been scientists! But science asks and tries to answer how stuff works. "Social Science" can never truly be science because people are not stuff.

Capitalist economic theory is "Social Science." Llike Dialectical Materialism it treats people as stuff: inputs, resources, cogs, fuel.