On local PBS, Dr. Wayne Dyer's 'Excuses Begone!', one of those fundraising 'specials'. On Direct TV's 101 channel, some clips from a Farm Aid concert.
A real contrast in realities ...
Listening to Dr. Wayne, and seeing all the gray and graying heads in the audience nodding in agreement on each word, left me wondering what the hell happened to My Generation. Listening to the Farm Aid concert, I couldn't help but wonder what's been done to it. Or, honestly, what it's done to itself.
Dyer's diatribes are excuses at the end of night. The songs of Neil Young, Steve Earle, John Mellencamp, and Willie Nelson are wake ups on a harsh dawn.
The Dyer Way is to accept. Farm Aid's message is to accept what is and then do something to change it (and not just the perception of it).
How have we come to this? What's been the error of our course? What's led us to Dr. Dyer and his empty salves to our consciousness? Somehow, in my mind at least, the answer is connected to the reason Farm Aid exists. It's a shout against easy over hard. Bigger and cheaper over better (morally, if nothing else) but dearer.
Both Dyer and Farm Aid have tough messages for us - Dr. Wayne's unintentionally so. I know which I'd rather listen to on a Sunday morning, flipping channels...
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