AstroBeast performs Confucius Lovecraft
Channel: NotTooLoud
Date: 2012-11-01

This mashup of Confucius by The Skatalites closed our set at The Elevens on Oct 30, 2012. We try to use different lyrics on this song each time. With Halloween coming and the presidential election right behind, Kate thought this reading from a letter by H. P. Lovecraft  seemed appropriate.

How can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone (agricultural-handicraft) world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with (the single detail of) unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'... utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.  
H. P. Lovecraft 1936