Some songs from the #Magpie album that motivated me to watch and enjoy #EthanHawke's #GoodLordBird series of shows about #OldJohnBrown
https://audio.liberta.vip/library/albums/7232/
#FunkWhale #SwordOfTheSpirit

It would be nice to re-work the #OldJohnBrown legend into a #FukuRokuJin #福禄寿. In place of a rifle and bible the moral man wields a planting stick and container full of heirloom seeds. The resistance to slavery goes on, freeing farmers from corporate serfdom. The Japanese state is trying to implement a law that bans #farmers and #gardeners from #SavingSeeds.

#EthanHawke's #GoodLordBird about #OldJohnBrown. The mentions the #Bible a lot, #Psalm72 :
> He will defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the needy; he will crush the oppressor.
http://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/PS+72.html
> He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2072&version=KJV
#Psalms " #JohnBrown believed what he believed, it didn't matter if it was true or not, he was a real white man"

> #JohnBrown wears a hangman’s noose for a necktie up in Heaven. I asked him about it, and he said, “Where’s yours? Where’s yours?”..
> I congratulated him on what he’d said on his way to be hanged before a gleeful, jeering throng of white folks. I quote: “This is a beautiful country.” In only five words, he had somehow encapsulated the full horror of the most hideous legal atrocities committed by a civilized nation until the #Holocaust.
#KurtVonnegut with #OldJohnBrown in #Heaven

> [Unitl] 1900, Brown was.. thought to be sane, though depending on what side.. characterized as either a righteous crusader for justice or a vile degenerate traitor. [By] nineteenth-century standards of sanity, Brown was no great exception.s. Not when it came to the extremes of.. religious fervor, or..familiarity with.. violence and death.. [of] ordinary lives.. regular experience of.. altered mental states.. “brain fevers,”.. epiphanies.. opiates.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/john-brown-good-lord-bird-slavery
#OldJohnBrown

> #VictorHugo #exclaimed in a burst of reverential passion: “John Brown is grander than George Washington!”..
> His calmness upon the gallows was awe-inspiring; his exaltation supreme.
> #OldJohnBrown is not dead. His soul still marches on, and each passing year weaves new garlands for his brow and adds fresh luster to his deathless glory.
> Who shall be the #JohnBrown of #WageSlavery?
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/eugene-debs-john-brown
#EugeneDebs #ChattelSlavery #slavery

#OldJohnBrown performed by #Magpie #FolkMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw-Ga6rZt0k