Priests of the Temple of Syrinx

originally posted by: Solvedit

originally posted by: KrustyKrab

originally posted by: Solvedit

Are you seriously saying that if some musician really offended all the women who go to rock concerts, they wouldn't shun the musician's act? Just because they didn't call it "cancelled" in 1976?

LOL. Nah, we didn’t even think about that woke crap back then. No one was looking for things that offended them, it just didn’t happen. If it did it was very isolated. Everyone’s offended now.

You're saying no one got boycotted in the entire 1970s.

Who mentioned woke?

I’m saying cancel culture wasn’t really a thing back then, nothing like it is today. Sure you had your protest and such but in general it wasn’t prevalent. People weren’t “boycotting” things like nowadays.

originally posted by: KrustyKrab

I’m saying cancel culture wasn’t really a thing back then, nothing like it is today. Sure you had your protest and such but in general it wasn’t prevalent. People weren’t “boycotting” things like nowadays.

People did boycott things.

However, Rush certainly were rock & rollers, possibly communist, i never followed them and don't know very much about them.

They may have wanted to warn the revolution that the revolution could get out of hand, without letting conservatives say "hey look everybody they're already starting gulags, their own bands are saying so."

In general, they and their target audience may simply prefer to be "with it" rather than spell stuff out.

Of course they might cite a novel inspired by the Soviet Union in order to warn their friends that their own revolution could get out of hand.

originally posted by: Solvedit

originally posted by: KrustyKrab

I’m saying cancel culture wasn’t really a thing back then, nothing like it is today. Sure you had your protest and such but in general it wasn’t prevalent. People weren’t “boycotting” things like nowadays.

People did boycott things.

I heard a story, which may be apocryphal about someone in the BBC canteen in the 80s when opposition to apartheid was pretty much universal in the UK.

Someone picked up an apple and looked at it, on seeing the sticker, produce of South Africa...they pulled a face and put it back.
The old lady on the till nodded sagely on seeing this and said "Oh I don't blame you dear, all them black hands been all over it!"

Course it might, as I said at the beginning only be apocryphal.

a reply to: SprocketUK

I heard it was an old dear in Sainsbury's who was told "you shouldn't buy oranges from South Africa"!

"Boycotting" dates back to 1880 and since then it has been extensively used:

en.m.wikipedia.org...

Cancel culture, more recent.

a reply to: Solvedit

People did boycott things.

I never said they didn’t. I said it wasn’t going on like it is today. I’ve said it a couple of times already🙄 Reading comprehension blah blah blah.

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
"Boycotting" dates back to 1880 and since then it has been extensively used:

en.m.wikipedia.org...

Cancel culture, more recent.

Funny, but if you asked me to give the etymology of the word I would guess taking all day to score thirty bloody runs

a reply to: SprocketUK

Ah. Best not go there.....

originally posted by: SprocketUK

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
Funny, but if you asked me to give the etymology of the word I would guess taking all day to score thirty bloody runs

Speaking of etymology:

From Wikipedia:
The syrinx (from the Greek word "σύριγξ" for pan pipes) is the vocal organ of birds...The syrinx enables some species of birds (such as parrots, crows, and mynas) to mimic human speech.

So the subjects of the song turned a city or a church into a place where they can learn to mimic smart things to say. Perhaps Rush is saying if you trap our kind to teach smart things to say to women with ambitions of being in charge, we might tell the men what's going to happen to them.