This day in history fifty and forty years ago was a time of reflection and re-assessment, after episodes of minor success for both the Rolling Stones and for the Tasmanian proto-Green party.
A lot of media attention has gone to the first ever gig for the newly named Rolling Stones in a Soho club called the Marquee in 1962.
(I was in the club 10 years later and it held all the charm of a gig in an ugly basement in a suburban church.)
Fifty years on ,the old guys are still rocking, though as a serious Stones fan I can't say I find much of their music listenable after
Sticky Fingers.
By contrast, the Tasmanian Greens who celebrate 40 years of life this year as the world's first ever Green Party, are getting better and better.
(While I only heard the Stones from a distance when they gigged Halifax, I did get to spend several fruitful hours with Nick McKim, leader of the Tassie Greens, on his trip to this city.)
I just saw a video of Bob Brown helping the Green candidate in the Melbourne (state) by-election and like Mick Jagger, he's still rockin' .
So - Shirley - it is only right to offer my greetings and congratulations to those two OLD brunettes, Mick and Bob ....
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- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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