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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaynard James Keenan (Tool) Says Trump Is Not Your Enemy, Ignorance Is
Your enemy is ignorance, he continued at the bands first New York appearance in over 10 years. Thats the fight. If you disagree with that, this next songs for you.
Tool followed Keenans political spiel by launching into Opiate, the title track from their 1992 debut EP.
The band has 11 more concerts scheduled. Tomorrow (June 7) theyll play Clarkston, Michigan. Their final announced show is June 24 in San Bernardino, California.
http://kroq.cbslocal.com/2017/06/06/tool-maynard-james-keenan-trump-not-enemy/?e=uc76l8XlMgGOOA
Well, he's not wrong!
ExciteBike66
(2,357 posts)That said, I think a case could be made that Trump IS an enemy since he is an active purveyor of ignorance.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)I am half way through Maynard's book, I need to finish it.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)You can make a very solid argument that there is one side that promotes and encourages ignorance. I am sure that the Right thinks that that side is us, but they are wrong, which is why Maynard is only partially correct. The very terms liberal and conservative denote the values that separate the left and right and which would suggest that one group above the other, promotes that ignorance which is the "true enemy".
The left/liberal is "open to new ideas and information" while the right/conservative "values tradition and behaviors that adhere to established norms". We have one group that promotes learning, experimenting, and moving forward with the best possible solutions and policies at the time; then we have the other group that believes that solutions that they feel have worked in the past will continue to work in the future and they oppose changes and challenges to those ideas.
Looking at the lyrics to "Opiate", it certainly shows how both left and right can fall victim to the desire for certainty and a "strong leader" to tell them what and how to think. However, as I said, there is one side that values authority to a much higher degree than the other. There is one side that values on sense of order more than the other. There is one side that attempts to restrict information in textbooks that maintain a certain view of history from a White Christian perspective. There is one side that disguises discrimination as "religious liberty", that seeks to defund scientific study, that denigrates Universities, that has had an ongoing war with intellectualism, and that says, "I like the uneducated" That side is not the liberals.