Shot In The Dark: We Are The Fools

December 17, 2004

We Are The Fools

Ed Driscoll looks back at Live Aid, on the occasion of the release of the four-CD retrospective set:

DURING THE SHOW, The Who performed their '70s anthem, "We Won't Get Fooled Again." The Boomer and MTV generations frequently forget how often they get fooled again.

While Live Aid was spectacular television, it was just another in a series of Big Events from people who believed that throwing money at a problem eventually solves it. Eerily, it forecast how the left would interact with Iraq: Substitute Mengistu for Saddam Hussein and it's amazing how all the rest of the players stay the same--the BBC, the United Nations, and celebrities who believe that despots can be reasoned with to do the right thing. We won't get fooled again? Of course you will.

RTWT.

Posted by Mitch at December 17, 2004 07:38 AM | TrackBack

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I don't think they all got fooled again -- at least not completely. Didn't Bob Geldof blast Clinton last year for doing "F***-all for Africa" during his administration and praise Bush for achieving better results? I haven't followed Geldof's statements before or since, so this one might be the exception. Still, it's encouraging to think that perhaps some celebrities care about results more than cheap talk.

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