Doug,

This thread has long since run its course but I get the impression that we have a similar sense of Mr. Dylan. One reason I continued to enjoy his work for a long time was that he seemed to have a well developed sense of “Hey, you guys take this stuff and yourselves way too seriously” or, perhaps, “hey, you guys are as much a problem as the stuff you’re pissed off about.”

Much of his work, in my knuckleheaded interpretation, takes simultaneous swipes at both the “establishment” and the folks who want a “revolution”.

But I fully admit that given Dylan’s lyrics, most any interpretation is possible