Songs of Protest

Having grown up with a heady knowledge of the Great Depression, listening to the songs of Woodie Guthrie and Pete Seeger, Robert Zimmerman had a generation's old vision of America: a country of poor, underprivileged, hardworking people at odds with the growing conflict amongst the Labor Unions.










His mind was filled with images of weary, coal-faced miners and iron workers, singing songs of protest at union picket rallies. And as I picture this America, I can't help but think about what's going on today...
































Is it possible that our generation will face another Great Depression? Have we learned so little from history that we must repeat it again and again?

What's the point of keeping record of things past if the past doesn't matter?

Maybe that's why Bob Dylan lost interest in singing songs of protest in the late sixties. After all that has happened in the last 200 years. After all the wars we have fought, we still return to the same place. A place of ignorance and barbarism, where the truth doesn't matter because we're too busy trying to survive it.