Something inside so strong

Saw a Pilger film on the Telly last night. Never been a big fan of his. Too shallow. I'm more of an Adam Curtis man, honestly. Pilger just gives a catalogue of injustices, certainly deserve attention and certainly very sad, but not particularly educational for anyone well enough informed to be watching his programme.

I got a free pair of shoes out of the New Deal today. Should think so too. The ones I got out of them a couple of years back are falling apart.

The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become
The farther you take my rights away
The faster I will run
You can deny me
You can decide to turn your face away
No matter, cos there's....
Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Tho' you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone
Oh no, something inside so strong
Oh oh oh oh oh something inside so strong
-- Something Inside So Strong, Labi Siffre

Good song, that. The soundtrack to that Pilger film, it was on. Adam Curtis tends to use tunes hijacked from the theme music of John Carpenter music. I immediately recognised the music from the start of "They Live". Even so, in non-musical ways Curtis is better. Always good to use stock footage. Curtis is the master of that. I though his last series, about the perils of negative liberty, disappeare dup its own backside honestly. The previous ones, the Century of the Self and the Power of Nightmares were fantastic, though.

One interesting thing about negative liberty: the one who established the doctrine received a letter from one Anthony P Blair. The Reverend (retd), as Private Eye would call him. Blair had misunderstood the doctrine and had adopted what he though was the conclusion of the man he was writing to, namely that positive liberty is doomed and counterproductive. He wrote wanting to know if it must be so. He never received a reply, due to the ministrations of the grim reaper. Perhaps if he'd received a proper defence of positive liberty he would be different, but I'm more inclined to believe he misunderstood because he was reading what he wanted to read. He hates positive liberty, therefore he interprets it as the inevitable superiority of the dark side.

Mind you, I don't believe in this negative/positive liberty rubbish.

You know, trying to use blogger is a nightmare.