I suspect you dont either. Marxism to me is little more than the opposite side of the Coin called Capitalism. Nature got along for billions of years without Capitalism or Marxism. They both arise out of human fear.

From the point of view of Vedanta or Non Dualism , everyone who has not transcended the limited point of view of the ego is caught in the mechanics of experience. Thus everyone knows something is happening, but has no clue as to what it is.

It is simply the Egoself meditating on itself creating the illusion of duality. There is no other, only God.

ONLY Bob Dylan knows what he meant in that great but incomprehensible song.

From wiki:

"Ballad of a Thin Man" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan.


[edit] Meaning

A dark and menacing-sounding song, "Ballad of a Thin Man" addresses a certain "Mr. Jones", telling him repeatedly that he simply doesn't "know what's happening". The song's lyrics have Mr. Jones facing a wild, nonsensical, hallucinatory, carnival-like world, and the character is portrayed as a clueless poser who cannot deal with it all.[1]

The "identity" of Mr. Jones has long been in dispute. When asked about it in an interview in 1965, Dylan responded:

"He's a pinboy. He also wears suspenders. He's a real person. You know him, but not by that name... I saw him come into the room one night and he looked like a camel. He proceeded to put his eyes in his pocket. I asked this guy who he was and he said, "That's Mr. Jones." Then I asked this cat, "Doesn't he do anything but put his eyes in his pocket?" And he told me, "He puts his nose on the ground." It's all there, it's a true story."[2]

The opening lines of the song, "You walk into the room, with your pencil in your hand," appear to lend credence to the notion that "Mr. Jones" may have been a journalist. In a mid-1980s interview with Q magazine, Dylan appeared to identify Mr. Jones as Max Jones, a former Melody Maker critic, supporting the theory that "Mr. Jones" was simply one of the many music critics who didn't "get" Dylan's songs, especially the more allegorical ones he wrote in the mid-1960s.[citation needed] Another theory is that the Jones in question was Jeffrey Owen Jones (later a film professor at Rochester Institute of Technology). As an intern for Time Magazine, Jones had inteviewed Dylan just a day before the musician's legendary performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.[3]

In Todd Haynes' 2007 surrealist Dylan biopic, I'm Not There, actor Bruce Greenwood plays "Keenan Jones", a journalist who doesn't understand the meaning behind the Dylan-esque character Jude Quinn's songwriting. In the film, Jones is sent through a hallucinatory nightmare sequence while Stephen Malkmus' cover of "Ballad of a Thin Man" plays in the background. Greenwood also plays Pat Garrett in the Richard Gere segment of the film.

It has also been speculated[citation needed] that the song is about Brian Jones, co-founder and guitarist of The Rolling Stones. Dylan was a friend of Jones and watched his lengthy downfall.

Apart from all of these possible Dylan-specific references, the term "Mr. Jones" is in general broadly understood as an allusion to the phrase "Keeping up with the Joneses" — a reference to the prototypical materialistic American family, so at odds with the outlook on life espoused by Dylan and the counterculture of the 1960s.

Another possible interpretation of the song is that it is about a man coming to grips with his own homosexuality.[4] Several lyrics appear to reference phallic symbols ("He hands you a bone" "With your pencil in your hand" "A one-eyed midget") and there are possible allusions to fellatio ("Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you /And then he kneels", "Here's your throat back, thanks for the loan") and transvestism ("He clicks his high heels") as well.

I'll give you the same straight talk that I've have had to give to MtnnDew/Bush-Cheney2004/John McCain2008 on these boards before. It's laughable when you put up youtube videos of Rock Music. Rock music flies in the face of everything you represent. You very well may be a nice person in "real life" but the ideals and ideas broached in rock music are 180 degrees from what you stand for. Rock musicians laugh at the Republicans. I was reading an article today about all of the artists who are suing or are threatening to sue the Republicans for using their music in this campaign. Artistic creativity and conservatism are oil and water. Always has been - always will. The Republicans ain't ever going to get the artist vote. Thank God - There is justice in the world.

Stick to Christian Rock sister....