Monday, April 1, 2019

Martin Luther King and Joni Mitchell

I’ve been listening to the punditry on Martin Luther King. Like Jesus, Buddha, and Gandhi, everybody wants to claim him as their own, but only if they can re-craft him in the image of the god of their own imagination.

On NPR’s “Q,” Joni Mitchell (hippie, non-hippie, anti-hippie icon) said that, like lunch, “Free love, a ruse for guys, there is no such thing... Art is a lie that gets you to see the truth.”

Loren M. Lambert © August 28, 2013

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