Re: Age-Poll

[tre@quake.net (Tre Hellman)]

In article <33C54093.61F3@aone.com>, cannon@aone.com (peggy cannon) wrote:


> I have always assumed that "Cloudbusting" was a thinly disguised
> re-telling of Wilhelm Reich's story -- and his orgone energy machine.

Not even thinly disguised. It was based on "A Book of Dreams" by Reich's
son (a reminiscence of his father and well worth reading). She made it
pretty explicit in the video (with the book tucked into her pocket) which
retold the horrible story of how Reich's work was *destroyed* by the US
government. Kind of a pity she didn't show his his notes and books being
burned in an incinerator (which is historically accurate) - nevertheless,
a very powerful song and video esp. if you know anything of the history
behind it.

But then you probably already knew all of that :)

Tre.