Is It Really About YOU?

Well, the Dixie Chicks must feel an overwhelming sense of vindication after their fistful of awards at last night's Grammys! You go girls!!



It got me thinking though. About you. Not just you. I mean YOU. As in Time's person of the year is YOU! And if it really is about you. Here we are - 2007 - supposedly living in a time and place where everything is about YOU, where you are free to ping, text, blog, video or even utter face-to-face anything you want and it's ok. Except it's not really ok. At least not without the acquiesence of the greater informal majority. If the Dixie Chicks, with all their power in the American music industry, can get fired by their once adoring American neo-con fans, think about what can happen to YOU!

Now, I do not agree with the approach Natalie Main took to communicate her message. It could have been more thoughtful, less emotional - but it was right because giving her opinion, in a free country (even if she was, physically, in the UK), is her right. It's your right. Afterall, this is about YOU (remember?)!

I wonder what Voltaire would have thought.