Dear trangbang68,

Thanks for the post. Like his primary sources in his younger days, Ezra Pound and T.S. Elliott, Dylan has always been closer to Edmund Burke than to those who tried to coopt him to the antiwar left. They listened on the surface and never really got him. His message, if he ever consciously had one, was not the revolutionary camaraderie of the left but rather a reaction to the troglodytes of tradition who sought to retain their position by holding back the American voyage. I’m old. I was there at the beginning. An acolyte of Ayn Rand who thinks that Eisenhower was a great President, who cast his first vote for Goldwater, I saw him, and still do, as the great iconoclast.

Regards,
Roy