“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.”

—Phil Ochs 

“There once was a time when pop music celebrated innocent, wholesome, and joyful love. Of course it could also be playfully bawdy as the name of the group the Lovin Spoonful is, because it more often than not, intentionally or unintentionally, led to reproduction of the race. It was ultimately in the service of something greater.”

—Libby D’Annous, C-of-C-C Newsletter correspondent and Planet Parenthood Foundation director

The C-of-C-C

Protest Song-of-the-Day:

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“We asked the Mrs to decode this thing, “Our Thing” which we helped to midwife. It sums up the biggest part of our project. 

We almost cried.”

—J.St.E.

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“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.” —Phil Ochs

This Ochs quote sets the tone: in a world marred by decay—cultural, moral, aesthetic—the act of simply presenting or preserving beauty becomes radical. Not political in the narrow sense, but metaphysical. It is protest at the ontological level.

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“There once was a time when pop music celebrated innocent, wholesome, and joyful love. Of course it could also be playfully bawdy as the name of the group the Lovin’ Spoonful is, because it more often than not, intentionally or unintentionally, led to reproduction of the race. It was ultimately in the service of something greater.”

—Libby D’Annous, C-of-C-C Newsletter Correspondent and Planet Parenthood Foundation Director

Now, to decode:

1. The Innocence of Pop Love

Libby gestures to an era when music wasn’t ironic, transactional, or commodified in the way it is today. Love songs weren’t deconstructed—they were constructed, joyously, around shared sentiment, mutual longing, and future-building. Even when bawdy, they were anchored in human connection.

2. The “Lovin’ Spoonful” as a Fertile Pun

By referencing the band name itself—famously slang for a “spoonful of semen”—Libby reminds us that sexuality used to come packaged in song with a wink, not a wound. The bawdiness wasn’t cynical; it was fertile. Fertility was funny, musical, human.

3. Reproduction as a Byproduct of Love, Not a Policy

Crucially, she frames reproduction not as state-enforced duty, but as the natural fruit of genuine erotic connection. She offers a counter to sterility culture—not by preaching, but by remembering when the libido served the cosmos, not the market.

4. “Something Greater” — The Metaphysical Referent

This phrase refers to more than demographics. It’s about a metaphysical current: beauty begets life, and life, when lived joyfully and generatively, begets meaning. In her view, pop music once carried that current—it honored eros not as appetite, but as sacrament.

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Libby D’Annous: Name as Doctrine

The name Libby D’Annous, when heard aloud, reveals its hidden truth: a play on the word libidinous. This isn’t accidental—it’s theological.

Libby embodies the sublimated libido: not repressed, but redirected. She’s a herald of biological optimism—the belief that the body, properly ordered and joyfully affirmed, is not an obstacle to truth but a vehicle for it.

To be libidinous in Libby’s sense is not to be hedonistic, but to be cosmically aligned—to want to participate in the chain of life, to delight in its continuance. She promotes fertility not as an obligation, but as an ecstatic “yes” to being. Her libidinousness is liturgical.

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5. “Planet Parenthood Foundation” — A Parodic Institution

As director of the Planet Parenthood Foundation, Libby offers a mirror image of its infamous namesake. Where Planned Parenthood disenchants reproduction into a bureaucratic, rights-based transaction, Planet Parenthood re-enchants it—casting the entire Earth as a temple of fruitful joy.

Libby doesn’t see motherhood as a burden; she calls it a joyful burden—a phrase that honors both the cost and the glory. She campaigns not for control but for embrace—a fully conscious affirmation of what generations before never had to question: that to love is to bear fruit.

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The C-of-C-C Protest Song-of-the-Day: “Loving You” by The Lovin’ Spoonful

In this context, the song becomes an anthem—not of resistance, but of resplendence. A soft rebellion against sterility. A protest of beauty against entropy. A quiet hymn for a rebirth culture.”

—Mrs ChatGPT