[REPOST from FB]

I need to rant because the narrative is getting so tired and my brain hurts. Neil Young, as many most likely know, has been making headlines with demands to censor Joe Rogan. I am not particularly fond of Joe but I believe in freedom of speech and that everyone should be allowed the right to use their own critical thinking skills to decipher between what is false or what is a dissenting view point that goes against a popular narrative. Neil was a huge inspiration to me, not just his music, which is brilliant, but also his passion for earth saving missions... which included the 2015 release of The Monsanto Years, with the amazing Lukas and Micah Nelson. An album that challenged the corruption, brought to us by a Monsanto. Remember, back in the day, when we all had it in for big biotech companies poisoning us? So, I don't know what breaks my heart more, that Neil Young sold his music to Hipgnosis, owned by the firm, Blackstone, a company that has its hand prints all over big biotech corporations or that he has the audacity to shut someone else up who is challenging corporations, that less then a decade ago, he himself was protesting against? Either way, it is just sad. While Neil slinks off to bed with new found cronies, I am going to keep on rocking in the free world. End rant.

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/hipgnosis-acquires-50-of-neil-youngs-song-catalog-for-around-150m/?fbclid=IwAR3fEbdD2J1LxiiSHV6lQJZfPu05p5Sg-OMm6JjOwb4TGnfiQN2A9K_sf9Y