Reading the Aeneid on Veterans Day

Who thought rock and roll would ever be taken seriously? None of us if we were honest would have thought so at the time, as we were in the time and couldn't see that what we were doing had a future; and if we could see it we were the ones who didn't much like rock and roll, we liked other kinds of music. Those of us who liked rock and roll liked it because it was a way to talk back to our parents and teachers, a sonic to make love by, the sound we made to establish a distinctly indistinct distance from a world we hadn't made and didn't want to live in. Who knew at the time that this music was for some of us a way of both going to war and not going to war?

The ancients, as always, are ahead of us, though we have surpassed them for the time being. And though we may all still be listening to different kinds of music, we're all still at war.