Saw part of Bruce Springsteen’s 60 minutes interview today. Never been a big fan of his music - not enough crunchy guitar. I’m sure he couldn’t care less. Apparently he and I are fairly divided regarding our political views, too. He views singers as “canaries in the coal mines” singing about injustices… well, I do like that approach OK enough. But, from what I understand he seems to view any measure taken in an attempt to protect America from her enemies as a great loss of civil liberties, or unjust, and just plain dangerous… for Americans.
My problem with his problem is that he offers no alternative defense. To me that’s kind of like going into a street brawl with your hands in your pockets.
“The Boss” seems to be masculine enough to defend himself, but his attitude seems SO passive. I would hate to be on a plane with him where terrorists are trying to take over… would he even sing about their brutal attempt to perpetrate another act of war? I never heard his 9/11 song so I have no idea if he lyrically spoke about the evil of that day or just the emotional shock that we all felt…
Anyway, I certainly wouldn’t want one of my daughters marrying him because I don’t see him protecting them - (in reality we are much younger than Bruce, so no worries there).
My question to that mentality is: “at what point do you take up arms… or do you just shrug off terrorist attacks as some other form of natural disaster… just some new injustice that maybe our lawyers can deal with?”
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