A TRIFECTA OF COINCIDENCE, SYNCHRONICITY, AND PROPHECY


Libby D’Annous returns with another dispatch from Planet Parenthood, where two events and a sixty-year-old song have somehow wandered into the same orbit.


Libby D’Annous attends a screening at Mystery Social Science Theater 3000 and notices an unfortunate conjunction in the day’s programming.


Here at Planet Parenthood, we don’t make the news. We merely notice the programming.


“Synchronicity gets stranger. Explaining Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing, Neil Young said he wanted to evoke the feeling of seeing something bad happen—his example: a mother striking her child for no reason. Sixty years later, another Clancy, another mother, three children—and a jury that still can’t agree. Sometimes the soundtrack arrives sixty years early.”

Neil Young:

“I want them to get a feeling like when you see something bad go down—when you see a mother hit a kid for doing nothing.”

—Neil discussing “Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing,” interviewed by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Los Angeles Times, September 17, 1967. 



“The Council of Concerned Conservationists does not manufacture coincidences. We just happen to notice when they occur in clusters.”
— Noah Paologese, C-of-C-C Meme Curator


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