
Ep. 65: John Lenin
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
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All You Need Is Love
In 1967 hippies were strange but lovable. It was plausible to tell a middle-aged Frank Sinatra fan that there was nothing really to fear from all these long hairs putting flowers in the rifles of National Guardsmen. In 1968 Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones would go from you could say flower power to street fighting men. How can anyone ever hope to have peace or peace seriously considered when their terms are so violently and wrongly presented? And so let me illustrate this point with French new wave film director Jean-Luc Gaudard. He asked both the Beatles and the Rolling Stone if he could make a documentary about their recording process in both bands, they said yes because at the time
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