HOW WELL WE REVISE
A birdseed wiseguy listens to
a birdseed lullaby. And it's all
a revisionist lie. Oh me, oh my!
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The most simple revisionism can
be the worst, and the most very
effective as well - since it works
by feeing on the brains of the low.
Once even The Beach Boys were
used as a working tool : Thirty
years ago they were presented
as a beleaguered group of boys
tormented by a driven dad intent
on forcing them into their musical
stardom. Now that's all forgotten.
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That Father is long gone now, and
the revised version has genius son
Brian Wilson, winging it, slightly
crazed, past all that Smiley Smile
bullcrap and into Good Vibrations.
Which is probably about a dildo,
we'll be told in another ten years.
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The story's been changed three times
over, and all to make the point. The
point, however is of pointlessness
itself. That all bring our ends anyway.
How well we revise what we first
learn to say.
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A birdseed wiseguy listens to
a birdseed lullaby. And it's all
a revisionist lie. Oh me, oh my!
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