{"id":9758,"date":"2016-10-24T06:01:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T10:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=9758"},"modified":"2016-10-22T12:02:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T16:02:40","slug":"my-back-pages-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=9758","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on my back pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; padding: 10px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x1by465\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be taking a little unscheduled time away for the next couple weeks for some important family time.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the timing means I will be out of the country when the CRTC begins the oral phase of its &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/2cG8LKK\" target=\"_blank\">Examination of differential pricing practices related to Internet data plans<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have written extensively about those kinds of issues over the past few years. Links to many of those posts can be found in my piece from last week, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/2ej1XIH\" target=\"_blank\">Differential pricing is about consumer choice<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A variety of events have been making me think about &#8220;My Back Pages&#8221;, written by this year&#8217;s Literature Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan in 1964. In my view, the best performance of that song was when Bob Dylan joined Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton and George Harrison at the <a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/2esx70c\" target=\"_blank\">30th anniversary concert<\/a> in October, 1992 at Madison Square Garden. That evening gathered quite a mix of artists and I highly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/2esx70c\" target=\"_blank\">the concert video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I marked 36 years since I started working full time in telecommunications. By the time I started work in the fall of 1980, this composition was already 16 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but I was so much older then, I&#8217;m younger than that now.<\/p>\n<table style=\"margin-left: 20px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>My Back Pages<\/strong><br \/>\nBob Dylan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"400\"><em>Crimson flames tied through my ears<br \/>\nRollin&#8217; high and mighty traps<br \/>\nPounced with fire on flaming roads<br \/>\nUsing ideas as my maps<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;ll meet on edges, soon,&#8221; said I<br \/>\nProud &#8216;neath heated brow<br \/>\nAh, but I was so much older then<br \/>\nI&#8217;m younger than that now<\/p>\n<p>Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth<br \/>\n&#8220;Rip down all hate,&#8221; I screamed<br \/>\nLies that life is black and white<br \/>\nSpoke from my skull. I dreamed<br \/>\nRomantic facts of musketeers<br \/>\nFoundationed deep, somehow<br \/>\nAh, but I was so much older then<br \/>\nI&#8217;m younger than that now.<\/p>\n<p>Girls&#8217; faces formed the forward path<br \/>\nFrom phony jealousy<br \/>\nTo memorizing politics<br \/>\nOf ancient history<br \/>\nFlung down by corpse evangelists<br \/>\nUnthought of, though, somehow<br \/>\nAh, but I was so much older then<br \/>\nI&#8217;m younger than that now<\/em><\/td>\n<td><em>A self-ordained professor&#8217;s tongue<br \/>\nToo serious to fool<br \/>\nSpouted out that liberty<br \/>\nIs just equality in school<br \/>\n&#8220;Equality,&#8221; I spoke the word<br \/>\nAs if a wedding vow<br \/>\nAh, but I was so much older then<br \/>\nI&#8217;m younger than that now<\/p>\n<p>In a soldier&#8217;s stance, I aimed my hand<br \/>\nAt the mongrel dogs who teach<br \/>\nFearing not that I&#8217;d become my enemy<br \/>\nIn the instant that I preach<br \/>\nMy pathway led by confusion boats<br \/>\nMutiny from stern to bow<br \/>\nAh, but I was so much older then<br \/>\nI&#8217;m younger than that now<\/p>\n<p>Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats<br \/>\nToo noble to neglect<br \/>\nDeceived me into thinking<br \/>\nI had something to protect<br \/>\nGood and bad, I define these terms<br \/>\nQuite clear, no doubt, somehow<br \/>\nAh, but I was so much older then<br \/>\nI&#8217;m younger than that now<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be taking a little unscheduled time away for the next couple weeks for some important family time. Unfortunately, the timing means I will be out of the country when the CRTC begins the oral phase of its &#8220;Examination of differential pricing practices related to Internet data plans.&#8221; I have written extensively about those kinds &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=9758\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflecting on my back pages<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reflecting on my back pages &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;ll be taking a little unscheduled time away for the next couple weeks for some important family time. 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