All in a Dream
Sam Aurelius Milam III
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in October of 2009, I watched the documentary Woodstock Now and Then,
on The History Channel. It was a beautiful documentary, maybe
even a magical documentary. That's because it was about Woodstock.
It's likely that any documentary about Woodstock will be beautiful and
magical. However, Woodstock Now and Then had some deficiencies.
Least among them was the bleeping of "certain words" from comments recorded
at the time of the event as well as from interviews done during the making
of the documentary. It was a documentary about Woodstock. Bleeping
words on the basis of what's acceptable to the establishment is an insult
to the memory and to the spirit of Woodstock.
A
more outrageous deficiency was blurring, the visual equivalent of bleeping.
It's obvious that the filthy-minded advocates of obscenity were hard at
work during the production of Woodstock Now and Then. The
documentary contained precious few scenes of nudity and even the ones that
somehow slipped past the vile restrictions of the censors were completely
blurred. Since the beginning of video technology, I suppose, those
arrogant thugs have been imposing upon the rest of us their hateful doctrine
of sin and punishment by trying to remove any sexual content from all video
presentations. Woodstock wasn't about nudity but nudity was an important
part of what happened there. Woodstock Now and Then was a
documentary about Woodstock. How can anybody make a documentary about
Woodstock,
blur the nudity, and not feel like a traitor to the dream that was Woodstock?
Don't
get me wrong. I've done things like skinny dipping and nude sun bathing
but I'm not a nudist. Regardless of the claims to the contrary by
the nudists, nudity is sexually provocative for most people.
Thus, folks probably shouldn't prance around naked in most situations.
However, that doesn't make nudity obscene. Nudity is never
obscene. In movies, in documentaries, on the television, just as
in real life, nudity ought to be shown where it happens, planned or otherwise.
It ought never to be censored merely because some filthy-minded morality
thug wants to impose the ugly notion of sin and punishment on everybody
else.
I
thought about Woodstock Now and Then for a few days and then I got
out my old recording of Woodstock, 3 Days of Peace & Music.
I hadn't watched it for about 20 years. I watched it again and there
again was the sharing, the peace, the freedom, and the beauty that was
Woodstock. The producers of Woodstock Now and Then tried to
show to us that dream again. Their effort was tainted by the morality
thugs but, nowadays, few people understand the dream anyway. Woodstock
was probably the last time in the history of America when a large body
of the people got together, without a hidden agenda or an ulterior motive,
spontaneously and without coercion or evangelism, and peacefully celebrated
their freedom. It was the end of an era that, I suppose, never actually
existed. We never were really free but at least we had the dream.
Today, the dream is all but forgotten. It has wasted away over the
years, a victim of stupidity, ignorance, fear, brainwashing, and cowardice.
Today, we live in a land that's driven by terror and ruled by fear.
It's a police state in which we have access to three kinds of behavior:
prohibited, required, or regulated. If we're caught engaging in prohibited
behavior, then we're punished. If we're caught failing to engage
in required behavior, then we're punished. If we're caught engaging
in regulated behavior without a license, then we're punished. Thus
do you recognize a police state. In forty years, we've gone that
far bad.
The
repression has only just begun. The dream is our best remaining defense,
maybe our only remaining defense, against what's coming. The dream
can be a powerful defense, but only if we understand it. The truth
will make us afraid. The fear will keep us weak. Maybe the
dream can make us free.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
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