The iPod and Jesus
A great light read for a Wednesday afternoon, oh, and it’s funny. By way of one of my favorite bloggers:
Excerpt from original SF Gate article
The iPod and Jesus — it just makes sense.
After all, Jesus was a rebel. Jesus was the Original Liberal. Jesus was a devoted pacifist and a badass egalitarian and his best friends were all whores and dissidents and freethinkers and miscreants, artists of every shape and size and haircut and of course, were he walking around today, Jesus would be pretty much loathed and ostracized if not outright hacked to bits by the Christian Right. ‘Goddamn hippie liberal tree hugger,’ they’d sneer, waving scythes and Bibles. ‘What the hell?’ Jesus would say.
All of which places Jesus in direct line of the iPod’s marketing demographic and all of which naturally raises the question, well, so just what does the great mystic and healer and closet Buddhist and funky savior of humanity have on his holy iPod?
It is, after all, a pertinent query. It is the modern-day personality test. Your iPod’s contents are now considered more revealing than your porn collection or your prescription drug addiction and it has now been widely reported that even our barely articulate president owns one, and poor old Dubya’s iPod is rumored to be home to a handful of mediocre boomer rock tunes and weak country music by grizzled alcoholics and songs about, uh, baseball, a reported whopping 250 songs out of a potential capacity for 10,000 but as everyone knows, Dubya is nothing if not all about the inability to expand memory competence.
Jesus, on the other hand, is a monster music fan. You just know it. After all, Jesus was an agitator. Jesus protested. Jesus battled the demons of the status quo and he defied the sad dictatorial norms of his day and as such the Holy iPod is surely home to a huge number of songs of protest and resistance and hope, rebellion and triumph and joy. Just for starters.
Of course this means lots of old Bob Dylan and a little bit of Peter, Paul & Mary and CCR’s ‘Fortunate Son.’ This means slightly stale but always eternal protest classics like Buffalo Springfield’s ‘For What It’s Worth’ and Barry McGuire’s ‘Eve of Destruction’ and the Youngbloods’ ‘Get Together’ and Edwin Starr’s ‘War (What Is it Good For)’ and even Eminem’s ‘Mosh,’ right alongside ’70s cheeseball monster hits like ‘Dust in the Wind’ and ‘Freebird’ and ‘Roundabout,’ despite how they’ve been pumped through the airwaves so many times it makes God cringe.
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Its pretty clear Jesus wouldn’t identify with the fundamentalist/materialist sects…
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(Via tingilinde.)