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Objectivist theme song

Posted by Ibecame 9 years, 1 month ago to Culture
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What do you all think about the old song "Sunshine" by Jonathan Edwards as a Objectivist theme song? Maybe some of you could come up with some other well fitting pieces.

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  • Posted by $ Stormi 9 years, 1 month ago
    I like the "My Way" suggestion, written by Paul Anka. However, another Pink Floyd song would caution us of what can happen too easily, indoctrination. "Another Brick in the Wall", which is where US public education has gone, and religion as well. Too easily we become robots to supposed good intentions. We need to keep that in mind not matter the setting, is can be a slippery slope.
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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 1 month ago
    Thanks for this post. I'm not good at finding songs that fit but I sure like mooching off those that can. What a great way this started my day off. :)
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 1 month ago
    ok this is always fun
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WehUfuVQ...
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    • Posted by Ibecame 9 years, 1 month ago
      Great Choice. I have always been partial to this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lIzkLJE...
      Lessons learned are the one thing you can take as much as you want of and no one can take them away from you.
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      • Posted by khalling 9 years, 1 month ago
        I just listened to the whole album this morning while sipping some Oaxaca brew. throws me back to my early teens. I discovered DF one summer working as a counselor in training at Girl scout camp. that was an interesting summer. I was 14 and driving a pick up truck with 12 canoes on a trailer back and forth to a lake. ha! and that was also the summer some crazed felon escaped from prison and brutally murdered some girl scouts in their tent just a state away from us. I gained alot of knowledge that summer :)
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        • Posted by Tracy 9 years, 1 month ago
          It wasn't a crazed escape felon. The man who was charged did not commit the crime. The real killers (yes, plural because one man couldn't have done all that was done) have never been caught. I live in the neighboring town where it happened. Read "Tent Number 8"

          But what a great trip down memory lane. I love reading stories from people's youth. Thank you for sharing.
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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 1 month ago
    I wish I saw this earlier.

    But put my vote for "White China" by Ultravox
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jbBv6Wh...

    An cautionary tale of Communism and what is in store for Hong Kong.

    "When pale turns to pink
    With a soft unnerving ease
    And all you've built around
    May just tumble to the ground

    We stand or fall
    With your future in another's hands
    We stand or fall
    When your life is not your own

    When white turns to red
    In the not too distant days
    Will force and misery
    Be the life you have to lead?

    We stand or fall
    With your children in anothers world
    We stand or fall
    When your town is not your own

    Chorus:

    White China
    White China

    When crimson takes a hold
    When the lights go down on all you've ever known
    When all you'll ever do
    Is worked out for you

    We stand or fall
    When the thoughts you have are not your own
    We stand or fall
    When the freedom slips away

    White China"
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