Are rwers slow and stoopid or what?

[Beer Snob-50]

this may have been discussed last week (i was away), but during the competing rallies in nyc concerning the mosque, the rwers played "born in the usa". didn't they learn during the reagan years that it is not really a patriotic song?

just curious.

[NewJeffCT]

1. They don't dig very deeply on the lyrics

They just hear the "Born in the USA" as a patriotic chant.

[Beer Snob-50]

2. i thought the meaning was very clear..

at least in my then drug addled brain.

[NewJeffCT]

3. It is pretty damn clear

but, if you don't hear much beyond, "la-la-la, Born in the USA"

[applegrove]

4. My sister was travelling in Europe while Bruce Springtein was on tour with that

song. They went to the concert and said all the Americans were so proud of that song. But I don't often know the lyrics to a song I like. I never think about the story in the words. I would do something like that is I was American. Some people just don't have detailed minds for words.

[RandomThoughts]

5. Some of that is blockers.

Some people can't hear or see some things, since if they did they would have to think and feel about some things, so they go through life in a form of sleep.

Where they mostly react and act out of compulsion, sort of programmed responses, instead of thinking about things.


The Born in the USA lyric, and the flag associated with it triggers whats in their macros, and can have no relationship to whats in the song at all.

Many people only hear there own thoughts, or live in there own minds. Not hearing what people say.


You can actually have conversations with people and say something, then ask them what you said, they can't say it back. You can say it again, and it fires off a macro about some programmed rant. After they repeat something they heard, you can then again ask what you said, and they still can't tell you what you said.

Finally when they can hear what you say, and say it, you then ask them what it means to them and why, and they have no idea.

I have had that conversation with a few people.


Songs with lyrics posted with them can help with that.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Considering they still think Colbert is serious and one of theirs - yes.