Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] dispassionate words of the cool -- NYC

Jeff and Jane Scott jscott@iinet.net.au
Mon, 05 Nov 2001 17:15:10 +0800


At 5/11/01 01:45  -0500, Gabe Luci wrote:

>Why is Pete so on the media line on this tour.  Anyone else disappointed?
>He said one statement to the effect that we need to all back up our
>governments decisions or something.


one of the best things about the Oils is they say what they think.  if they 
disagree with what the govt is doing, they say so.  if they agree with it, 
they say so.

so many so-called "political activists" seem to think that they must 
disagree with anything the government ever does, so it just seems that most 
of the time they are disagreeing for the sake of it.  it is not possible 
that the government has never ever done a single thing that you thought was 
good or worthwhile.  a lot of bands are like Pavlov's Dog these days.  the 
singer says "John Howard", the audience says "BOOOO!" and i think "yeah, 
there's a convincing argument".


jeff...

(PS i don't mean the band "Pavlov's Dog", i mean the original Pavlov's Dog 
experiment in autoresponse behaviour!)