https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/living-in-a-new-world-with-an-old-soul-5463575Living in a New World With an Old Soulby Jeffrey A. Tucker
8.16.23
Excerpts:Yes, like millions of others, I’ve been listening to Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond” on repeat for days. I can't seem to get enough of it. It's a passionate cry from average people against exploitative elites, with lyrics that reach so deeply into the heart and soul that they elicit tears.
The whole presentation is perfect: melody, lyrics, singer, setting, and sensibility. It’s pure magic and hits the sweet spot of our times.
I’m also feeling a great joy from seeing the song rocket from nowhere to the No. 1 most downloaded song in the English-speaking world, including the UK and Australia. It's the cry of the masses against what has been done to us.
It touches on all of the themes: inflation, welfare, substance abuse, suicide, totalitarian ambitions, the lack of representation, and even the sensitive subject of the blackmail of politicians by Jeffrey Epstein’s horrible business. For this latter point, the song is being denounced as QAnon, whatever that means.
Just as preposterous is the claim that this is about “right-wing influencers” manipulating working-class populations. That isn't it at all. Right-wing influencers don’t have the power to make a song go from nothing to No. 1, much less push four other songs by the same artist into the top 10. Mr. Anthony is suddenly higher than Taylor Swift on the charts, and the reason is simple: He's telling the truth and thus earning trust.
This song has rocked the world only a week after the song/video “Try That in a Small Town” by Jason Aldean traveled a similar trajectory, and was therefore widely denounced by the legacy media. They used all the usual smears: racist, fascist, etc. This is what they call people who simply want their lives back.
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They said none of this would work. It did work. Now, the elites are paying attention. Indeed, they're terrified. Rightly so.
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We're indeed living in a new world, but we have old souls. But I’m seeing the rise of an insurgency on all fronts. We need to make the new world the old world, and renew our souls with the salve of freedom.
Consider the Psalm read by Mr. Anthony at his Sunday farmers’ market performance:
“The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them. But the Lord laughs at the wicked for he knows their day is coming. The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
“But their swords will pierce their own hearts and their bows will be broken. Better the little that have righteousness than the wealth of many wicked. For the power of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous. The blameless spend their days under the Lord’s care and their inheritance will endure forever. In times of disaster, they will not wither and in days of famine, they will have plenty. But the wicked will perish.
“Though the Lord’s enemies are like the flowers of the field, they will be consumed and they will go up in smoke.”
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