Matthew Delooze – The Answer My Friend Is Blowing In The Wind

Part 6. The Answer My Friend, Is Blowing In The Wind

By Matthew Delooze

‘You look like you are gone with the wind,
running naked through the streets.
Wired out, tired out, trancendental mental,
only laughing in your sleep.
Nostalgia is starting to focus to late,
imagination is starting to itch.
Oh there aint no rock and roll no more just the music of the rich……
It’s apathy for the devil and apathy for the sun’.

(From the song Apathy 83 by Ian Hunter)

The festival season is once again upon us and its not easy to get straight to the point of the information that I want to relay to you in this article, from cold so to speak, but I will try my best. I need you to open your minds, if only for a short time, and think for yourself. OK? So let us begin.

Why do you go to festivals? What is the attraction? What magnetic force is in operation that reels you in like an easy victim of an expert fisherman? Is it just the beautiful music that you yearn to hear? Are you enchanted by the lyrics of a clever song writer? Do you go to festivals just to see one or more of your idols in the flesh? Do you go to festivals for spiritual reasons , are your spirits raised so much by the festival atmosphere that you are almost in a constant state of bliss when you are there? Do you go to festivals just to ‘show your face’, chill out, take drugs, get laid or just to make money selling pies and hotdogs?
Maybe you just feel the emotion of ‘happiness’ whilst at the festivals and they have become a welcomed escape from the shitty world you usually live in? Maybe you just ‘respect’ the festival scene in general and the people who attend them and of course there is nothing wrong with that at all.

The main question I ask you, on a five sense level, is why do you think an establishment, that usually oppresses the masses, allows festivals to go ahead in the first place? Is it because they put your ‘leisure activities’ at the top of their priority list ?

I don’t think so for one minute. Do You?…

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