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Winston Marshall is leaving Mumford & Sons. He made the mistake of praising Andy Ngo's new book, and the torrent of sewage spewing at him from the rabid left is affecting the band.
He explains it all here. I neither praise nor condemn him. He's been walking a thin line, and it appears he now sees what a futile effort that is. Ideologues want all of you: Heart and soul, body and mind, and you must recite all the right words. No nuance.
He includes this quote from Aleksander Solzhenitsyn:
“And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.”
I leave you with an appropriate Mumford & Sons song: Hopeless Wanderer. Apologies for not picking a classical selection for this weekend, but I am fairly ignorant of that genre...
The purge of the not-pure-enough-at-heart continues...
ReplyDeleteHe purged himself to take heat off the band, but I predict that won't be enough. The remaining members will be hounded by the progressive press to renounce him all his wrongthink.
DeleteAmerica's secular "Great Awokening" must have its' sacrificial victims lest the children of '68's children disbelieve their parent's grand narratives about the "Summer of Peace and Love" and their once grand/ righteous commitment to Social Justice.
DeleteExcellent commentary. So sad that so many of that summer of love cohort are now the elders of this illiberal, neo-maoist movement.
DeleteLet's face a fact, the Left took over the music industry (& culture) back when Dylan went electric and they haven't looked back, since. They certainly aren't going to cut any ideological slack to a mildly conservative- leaning British banjo player... They'll squash him like a bug.
DeleteSounds a lot like what the Dixie Chicks faced when they were critical of the Bush Admin after 9/11.
ReplyDeleteThe "purge of the not-pure-enough-at-heart" indeed continues, from both sides of the aisle.
Somehow I doubt that the "majority" of M&S's fan base (as opposed to its' business/producer base) is "woke".
DeleteSounds like an inter-band-mAte problem In 2018, the group attracted criticism for being photographed with the rightwing professor Jordan Peterson. Lovett told the Guardian: “I looked forward to having a conversation with him, but only because I wanted to have a conversation with as many people as possible.” He described Peterson as “an intellectualist more than anything: I don’t think he particularly likes how political it is”.
DeleteMumford said he was upset that people might take the photograph as an endorsement of Peterson’s politics, many of which he disagreed with. He said he would “fiercely defend my bandmates’ rights to listen to the guy”.
band troubles... at the same time his actress wife divorced him...
DeleteWhataboutism is a poor substitute for real conversation.
DeleteIngratiating yourself with an anti-American audience overseas is a craven act that has no comparison to praising a heroic expose on leftwing street fascists.
https://tasteofcountry.com/natalie-maines-dixie-chicks-bush-controversy/
Farmer,
DeleteI don't understand how Jordan Peterson has become such a hate totem of the left. The man is not a rightwinger.
Peterson has the same view that Richard Dawkins has that people can't mutilate themselves into becoming an opposite gender.
DeletePeterson came to fame through his opposition to Canadian legally enforced gender pronoun speech codes... and the globalist gay cultural mafia will never forgive him for it. He's a bit too moralistic a philosopher for my taste, but he does have a following.
DeleteI've got this far without holding any opinion of Mumford and sons, and I don't intend to develop one now. Only thing I know about them is that they're posh boys, which I don't blame them for but it is hard to accuse a man with an oligarch-level safety net of courage.
ReplyDeleteIncredibly sad. The witch hunt progresses and the anger will not be sated until there is a burning at the stake. That is how this thing finally ends.
ReplyDeleteSF,
ReplyDeleteApologies for not picking a classical selection for this weekend.
No apology necessary! I am grateful that you're keeping the blog going while I'm all-consumed with The Big Clean Out of this house, the last of the family homesteads. Mr. AOW and I lived here for nearly 49 years. So much stuff to sort through! Rather than junking a lot, I'm trying to find homes for things which are worthy of passing along.
PS: my tastes in music are eclectic.
Poor little snowflake.
ReplyDeleteWell, I guess it will sell a couple of copies of Ngo's piece of crap after the LA Times trashed it.
He's not much of a banjo player, either.
If the El Lay Thymes trashed it, it must be good.
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