“When I go to play music in Europe, if I talk about Donald J Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminium blanket……That is happening all the time now. Countries have new advice for those returning to America…..If I come back from Europe and am barred, can’t play my USA tour, all of the folks who bought tickets will not be able to come to a concert by me…..That’s right folks. If you say anything bad about Trump or his administration, you may be barred from re-entering USA if you are Canadian. If you are a dual citizen like me, who knows? We’ll all find that out together.
-Neil Young
In his recipe for an ideal totalitarian state, Plato remarks:
-For a change to a new type of music is something to beware of as a hazard of all our fortunes. For the modes of music are never disturbed without unsettling of the most fundamental political and social conventions….
-It is here then, I said, in music, as it seems, that our guardians must build their guardhouses and keep watch.
Plato: The Republic
Recommended Reading: Poetry as Insurgent Art by Laurence Ferlinghetti