{"id":507,"date":"2005-10-21T13:29:54","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T20:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=507"},"modified":"2005-10-21T13:29:54","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T20:29:54","slug":"rush-and-ayn-rand-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/10\/21\/rush-and-ayn-rand-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush and Ayn Rand, again"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>You know, I really haven’t the foggiest why I’ve posted a smattering of things on old Rush lyrics. As I’ve said: I don’t hate the band, though I don’t necessarily like the band. The only song I never want to hear again is “Tom Sawyer”. There was an amusing “mash-up” I heard with them a few weeks that I can’t find with any immediacy… And as bad as that proggiest of prog-rock songs you hear on “Rock Block Saturdays” is from the ultimate clunker of prog-rock pretensions, it’s amusingly bad.<\/p>\n

But something struck me the other day while listening “Closer To The Heart” on classic rock radio. It’s the age old Rush questionThat’s all well and good, but what does this have to do with Ayn Rand?<\/a><\/p>\n

And the men who hold high places
\nMust be the ones who start
\nTo mold a new reality
\nCloser to the heart
\nCloser to the heart
\nThe blacksmith and the artist
\nReflect it in their art
\nThey forge their creativity
\nCloser to the heart
\nCloser to the heart<\/p>\n

Philosophers and ploughmen
\nEach must know his part
\nTo sow a new mentality
\nCloser to the heart
\nCloser to the heart
\nYou can be the captain
\nI will draw the chart
\nSailing into destiny
\nCloser to the heart<\/i><\/p>\n

So, here’s the problem. Isn’t this collectivist in nature, describing the place each individual (the artist and the blacksmith and the philosopher and ploughman) must put themselves into to have society a’working? Granted, the “You can be the captain” line suggests the individuality of Randism… but that’s about it.<\/p>\n

(And don’t miss Rick Emerson describing Bon Jovi here<\/a>, a few posts down.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know, I really haven’t the foggiest why I’ve posted a smattering of things on old Rush lyrics. As I’ve said: I don’t hate the band, though I don’t necessarily like the band. The only song I never want to hear again is “Tom Sawyer”. There was an amusing “mash-up” I heard with them a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}