(non)-Violence: I gave her the gun!

I've always wondered how a group of people who can be so nonviolent when it comes to culture (opposed to violent television.. movies.. video games.. etc.)  can also be so very pro War when it comes to real life and real politics...

(Zen... can there be "real politics?").  

I'm not talking about self defense or even those who struggle between weighing the balance of the "necessary" war with the devestation and destruction that war actually causes... Im talking about those who treat war like it's the Suberbowl..

..Us against them...

..sitting down with popcorn.. in front of the TV watching bombs drop (on other human beings) through night vision.. on HD..

Im talking about making a War to market with it's own catch phrases (Shock and Awe)...

In my van.. There was a soulful distortion coming through the speakers... it was "Hey Joe..." (where you going with that gun in your hand?... Jimi Hendrix.. #198 on the list)... 

When Jimi sang "Hey Joe".. (cover... Not his original song).. it was to an anti-war crowd.. But "Hey Joe's" not an anti-war song... At least not the kind of War between nations... 

Rather... It's about a war between lovers.... a dude going down to "shoot" his "old lady" cause he caught her.. "messin round with another man"... 

disturbing. 

But to an anti war crowd.. in the mind.. it's jumbled and re-imagined..

a dude.. a GI (named Joe).. is going down (to war) to shoot an (ideologically) unfaithful lover.. 

Same words... different setting.. 
..suggesting a similar but different meaning.. (Zen)

Shocking.  

But poignant for it's time.   

Because that's how Art works... 

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Hey Joe (#198 in The List)

Released in December 1966, Hendrix's version became a hit in the United Kingdom, entering the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart in January 1967 and peaking at #6.[38] The single was released in the United States on May 1, 1967 with the B-side "51st Anniversary" but failed to chart.[39] "Hey Joe", as recorded by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, remains the best known version of the song[6] and is listed as #198 on Rolling Stone magazine's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[40] In 2009 it was named the 22nd greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.[41] "Hey Joe" was the last song Jimi Hendrix performed at the Woodstock festival in 1969 and as such, it was also the final song of the whole festival. The song was performed after the crowd, comprising the 80,000 who hadn't yet left the festival, cheered for an encore.[42]

For More Info Here's Wiki for What it's Worth:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Joe