Dylan's vision of fame and envy
In his autobiography, "Chronicles, Vol. One," Bob Dylan rejects
the cliché that he was the spokesman of a generation. He says
he had "very little in common with, and knew even less about,
the generation (he) was supposed to be the voice of." One theory
is that Dylan has again caught the zeitgeist and is helping to
dismantle the celebrity culture. Literary critic Clive James said
that the celebrity culture has gone too far and is wrecking lives.
In the CR, the media have created celebrities and are now
cutting them down to size. Blesk has recently run smearing
articles about sports heroes Jaromír Jágr, Milan Baroš and Pavel
Nedvìd. Perhaps this sells newspapers, but Dylan suggests
another motive. In 1965, he wrote "Positively 4th Street," a
blistering comment on envy: "Now I know you're dissatisfied/
With your position and your place/Don't you understand/It's not
my problem." He could have been singing to envious Czech
journalists. Volume
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