{"id":77797,"date":"2021-05-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77797"},"modified":"2021-05-14T05:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T10:16:35","slug":"hope-i-die-before-i-get-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77797","title":{"rendered":"Hope I Die Before I Get&#8230;Young"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who for the past 57 years or so, tees off on the &#8220;Woke&#8221; generation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe woke generation \u2014 it\u2019s terrifying, the miserable world they\u2019re going to create for themselves,\u201d the rocker said in a recent interview with DJ Zane Lowe on Apple Music.<\/p><p>\u201cI mean, anyone who\u2019s lived a life \u2014 and you see what they\u2019re doing \u2014 you just know that it\u2019s a route to nowhere, especially when you\u2019ve lived through the periods of a life that we\u2019ve had the privilege to,\u201d Daltrey added. \u201cI mean, we\u2019ve had the golden era. There\u2019s no doubt about that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pete Townshend &amp; Roger Daltrey: \u2018The Who Sell Out\u2019 Released in 1967 and their Legacy | Apple Music\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q-ONJ8UuvhU?start=1923&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The English rock legend went on to point out the differences between \u201cthe woke generation\u201d and generations of the past, noting, \u201cwe came out of a war,\u201d and have actually \u201cseen the communist system fail\u201d firsthand.<\/p><p>\u201cBut we came out of a war, we came out of a leveled society, completely flattened bomb sites and everything,\u201d Daltrey said. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve been through socialist governments. We\u2019ve seen the communist system fail in the Soviet Union. I\u2019ve been in those communist countries while they were communist.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen how \u2018wonderful\u2019 \u2014 really? \u2014 it was,\u201d the rocker added, sarcastically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>People today forget, or never knew, that after UK went full-bore Labour at the end of World War 2, it subsequently took them nine years to end war-time food rationing.  And while the food situation gradually improved, once &#8220;rebuilding&#8221; ended, the rest of the economy went in the tank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also &#8211; not bad for a guy that&#8217;s gonna be eighty in the next few years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who for the past 57 years or so, tees off on the &#8220;Woke&#8221; generation: \u201cThe woke generation \u2014 it\u2019s terrifying, the miserable world they\u2019re going to create for themselves,\u201d the rocker said in a recent interview with DJ Zane Lowe on Apple Music. \u201cI mean, anyone who\u2019s lived a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,51,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-liberal-tyranny","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77798,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77797\/revisions\/77798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}