October 27, 2021

"It’s hard to stick with the muse, that’s for sure, and not be a caricature of your past. You’re always struggling to outdo what you did before. I don’t think he thinks that way at all."

Said Jesse Dylan about his father, quoted in "Jesse Dylan: The Sixties? Dad and I would rather talk about Dante/The film-maker talks about his George Soros documentary, the super-rich — and being Bob’s son" (London Times).

And: "He’s not a nostalgic person, he’s always looking forward to the next thing... We probably spend more time on Milton or Shakespeare or Dante." Neither of them does social media, we're told

About Soros, Jesse says: “The thing that surprised me the most about him is that you can change his mind... I’ve worked with a lot of very, very wealthy people — you cannot change their minds. It might as well be written in cement. Because they were successful in one place, they think they’ll be the same success everywhere. What’s unique about George is that he doesn’t know the answer. He sits with people and talks with them, to try to understand.”

18 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

As I check the phone The Wallowers hit One Headlight is playing on the radio. B98.5 Georgia

Sebastian said...

"He sits with people and talks with them, to try to understand.”

. . . how to undermine the criminal justice system and the rule of law just a tiny bit quicker.

Owen said...

I can forgive Bob Dylan an awful lot. But not George Soros.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Except socialism. None of the many horrific failures of socialism has changed Soros’ mind about pushing that poisonous political system here!

Wince said...

Like Hunter Biden, didn't the "dad" thing come first?

Jesse Dylan has spent time with a lot of influential people... [Sequence of celebrity names drops.] Then there’s the man he calls dad, one Bob Dylan.

Temujin said...

Oh yeah. Soros is known for trying to understand. Just before he shorts your economy and your banks go under. Ask the British. Or the Thais, or Malaysians. He's a societal parasite, arranging economic collapses, then feeding on the carcasses. He's the kind of person who happily confiscated personal belongings from Jews about to be taken into Nazi camps- as a Jew (by birth only) no less.

He's fomenting unrest globally. This is what he loves, what he's good at. He funds various leftist organizations and is the main funding for the destruction of the US. None of this is fiction. This is what he does and who he is.

That Dylan finds him agreeable shows how naive Dylan is. If you were to interview an aged pure Evil, a man who has seen so much and lived a long life manipulating the globe, and come away thinking you have made him change his mind about anything, you'd have to considered callow.

Joe Smith said...

Written in cement?

Cement is just a binder...it is loose and easily changeable/shiftable.

Mixed with sand, water, and other things it dries into concrete.

Now that's tough to change...

Quaestor said...

Mike (MJB Wolf) says it all.

Might as well close the comments.

M Jordan said...

Not buying it about Soros being flexible. I’m guessing he’s flexible with the strict confines of progressive thought, like a steel nail is flexible until it reaches its elastic limit.

SeanF said...

"...he’s always looking forward to the next thing... We probably spend more time on Milton or Shakespeare or Dante."

Ah, yes, those young up-and-comers. I predict great things for them.

cassandra lite said...

Change his mind about what? Destroying Western Civ out of some unconscious animus toward Western Civ driven by his deeply buried sense of guilt for what he did during the Holocaust? "If I'm evil, then everyone else must be, too." Nobody who did what he did would brag about not feeling even a sense of nagging ambivalence.

Rosalyn C. said...

I agree with Sebastian. Soros believes his opinions are right and better, and any adjustments are strictly logistics.

Like pretending to be a Christian boy and helping Nazis collecting the possessions of Jews who had been sent to camps -- was a fun time for young Soros.

wendybar said...

George Soros is evil. He collapses economies. He is banned from many countries. If you don't think HE is the one paying for the illegal caravans coming into our country today, you are blind. He is on his way to collapse America's economy which he will make millions from. What a fool Bob Dylan raised to give that man any time to spew nonsense. Who's he going to interview next?? Bill Ayers?

boatbuilder said...

The "One Headlight" Dylan was Jakob. Great song. I wonder what happened to him and The Wallflowers.

MikeD said...

Hagiographies are usually 90% bull shit!

Sydney said...

What’s unique about George is that he doesn’t know the answer. He sits with people and talks with them, to try to understand

He’s also a man of wealth and taste, I hear.

tim in vermont said...

I notice a lot of references to classic literature in his more recent songs... meh.

Kai Akker said...

Milton, Shakespeare, Dante.... who did he leave out? Faulkner, Joyce, Celine, Burroughs. Ah, Melville.

Via Spark Notes.