Bob Dylan - Nobel Prize for Literature

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Why would anyone complain about the decision? It is a private organization and they can award whom ever they want.

I'm actually surprised that someone hasn't complained, like they usually do over who gets the peace prize.

[Sailor Steve]

I'm complaining! I'm offended that some peacenik hippy writing all those anti-war lyrics should get the Peace Prize! It's an affront to all...










Wait, whut?

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I'm complaining! I'm offended that some peacenik hippy writing all those anti-war lyrics should get the Peace Prize! It's an affront to all...










Wait, whut?

Allow me:

I'm complaining! I'm offended that some Hibbing, MINNESOTA peacenik hippy writing all those anti-war lyrics should get the Peace Prize! It's an affront to all...

EDIT following a lot of articles; pro and con;

Billy Collins, the former United States poet laureate, argued that Mr. Dylan deserved to be recognized not merely as a songwriter, but as a poet.
“Most song lyrics don’t really hold up without the music, and they aren’t supposed to,” Mr. Collins said in an interview. “Bob Dylan is in the 2 percent club of songwriters whose lyrics are interesting on the page even without the harmonica and the guitar and his very distinctive voice. I think he does qualify as poetry.”
In giving the literature prize to Mr. Dylan, the academy may also be recognizing that the gap has closed between high art and more commercial creative forms.
“It’s literature, but it’s music, it’s performance, it’s art, it’s also highly commercial,” said David Hajdu, a music critic for The Nation who has written extensively about Mr. Dylan and his contemporaries. “The old categories of high and low art, they’ve been collapsing for a long time, but this is it being made official.”

Bottom line; I don't much care for his stuff (more Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Neal Young) but I never doubted that he is extremely talented, daring, never disappointing, and persistently messaging in many genres...for half a century!! He is still a 'work in progress' which many will undoubtedly follow with more interest now that the recognition is pretty universal.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Oberon

I'm actually surprised that someone hasn't complained, like they usually do over who gets the peace prize.

When it's stupid, we complain.

Originally Posted by Catfish

Because Dylan was and is 100-percent anti war, he demonstrated and still is against the Vietnam war, the US belligerent engagement in the middle East and against racism.
For right-wingers and "patriots" this is usually enough to throw with dirt.

Well, almost all artists and musicians are "anti-war", that's pretty easy to ignore when enjoying their works.

But it begs the question: who is really "pro-war"? That's getting off topic, but most people are against war.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

But it begs the question: who is really "pro-war"? That's getting off topic, but most people are against war.

Anyone when they're made to be.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Anyone when they're made to be.

Goering knows best?

[HW3]

The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 was awarded to Juan Manuel Santos.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan.

Just thought I would clear that up.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

Goering knows best?

Machiavelli, as another example.

Those Goering quotes, or Machiavelli's writings, are simple observations of the obvious. Empirically proven all too often in history. They do not speak compliments about humans, especially when humans show up in great groups and crowds - but they are true.

The mechanisms of power, and how to obtain it and keep it, maybe have not significantly changed since millenia. And why should they have? Why changing them when they so well helped the ambitions of those seeking power ?

IQ and size of a crowd, are reverse proportional.