re: Was Frank Zappa somewhat prophetic?

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If you do as much drugs as Zappa you could be a prophet too or at least think you are.

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Zappa didn't do drugs. He was basically against them.

Frank had a great nose and a disdain for bullsh**. This is why he would hate Trump first and foremost.

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He wasn't prophetic enough to even imagine the Internet and social media

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The internet was created in 1966 by his dad's industry (DoD) and great thinkers had already been talking about it before that.

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Arthur C. Clarke and Marshall McLuhan are the two figures most noted for predicting the internet in the 1960s, with Clarke describing an "Intergalactic Network" in 1964 and McLuhan forecasting the "global village" in 1962. Their insights accurately anticipated global instant communication, remote work, and information access decades before the technology existed

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Love Zappa, but let’s not forget his father was a high ranking member of the military. Crosby, Morrison, and Joplin to name a few, all come from military backgrounds, so there’s a lot of talk of the Psychadelic movement being astro turfed instead of an organic movement.

There’s a book called “Laurel Canyon” or something along those lines that goes in on that.

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But I don't remember Frank using drugs ... I may be remembering that incorrectly but I always thought he was against drugs?

Uncle Remus

Wo, are we movin' too slow?
Have you seen us,
Uncle Remus...
We look pretty sharp in these clothes (yes, we do)
Unless we get sprayed with a hose
It ain't bad in the day
If they squirt it your way
'Cept in the winter, when it's froze
An' it's hard if it hits
On yer nose
On yer nose

Just keep yer nose
To the grindstone, they say
Will that redeem us,
Uncle Remus...
I can't wait till my Fro is full-grown
I'll just throw 'way my Doo-Rag at home
I'll take a drive to BEVERLY HILLS
Just before dawn
An' knock the little jockeys
Off the rich people's lawn
An' before they get up
I'll be gone, I'll be gone
Before they get up
I'll be knocking the jockeys off the lawn
Down in the dew

I recommend Frank's autobiography, short insightful read, for a one of kind. He blames beer for all world wars...

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Frank had a great nose and a disdain for bullsh**. This is why he would hate Trump first and foremost.

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Sure. And he would gladly accept O and forced vax *biden?

Maybe so. Rage, Green Day and many other so-called Power to the People bands jumped on board with government tyranny 100%.

I thought Zappa would be more intelligent, but I did not know him and his music well.

His drug of choice was Nicotine. Nothing else.

I think the Laurel Canyon book was about the John Holmes mass murder thing ... wasn't it?

I'm not sure how that would have tied into Zappa.

Found a data point. High Times, December 1989

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How have you managed to keep your integrity while becoming a successful businessman?

It's really easy. All you have to do is decide you don't want to be one of those guys. You don't make as much money, but you can certainly live well enough.

It's a bizarre thing – you ask kids what they want to be when they grow up, or what they want to do, and their answer is, "I want to make money." In a survey among high school students, more kids said Donald Trump was their hero than anybody else.

Yeah, but on the other hand, let's deal with it as a fact of life in America. I think that's a very good indicator of the failure of US education. Now if you add these two facts together, Donald Trump is the idol of American teens, and that teens can't read, write, or do arithmetic, what do we have?

What?

A failure to communicate.

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