March 9, 2004

Mommy Issues?

Todd Anderson, the designer of HobbsOnline, has written about rock 'n' roll and politics for the online version of The American Spectator. Don't miss it. Here's an exceprt...

PunxforDean.com, PunkVoter.com, Rock the Vote - not to mention MTV, Rolling Stone, MaximumRockNRoll, Spin, Punk Planet and all the rest - are eager to harness the unifying power of music for political action. Yet they direct that power right into back into the authoritarian, nannyish hands of the status quo.

Rock's political lemmings continually ignore evidence that smaller government secures individual rights, allows greater artistic freedom, and generally stays out off of your cloud. Concerned with the spying and warring powers of the government, rock 'n' roll statists have never realized that a smaller government would be easier to keep an eye on.

Sadly, the rock 'n' rollers would rather live in a collective dystopia where an enormous government shares and cares with them. Maybe all rockers have mommy issues.