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Ive felt the arctic wedge of disjuncture myself at one time and another, stuck in the painful place where you can cultivation only send frozen warnings cross the borderline and those inevitably get distorted. Because theyve captured it so well Black Sabbath means a lot to me and cultivation a lot of my friends for "Paranoid" alone. With the experience so common these years is it any wonder that this group has conquered the world (so to speak)? And now that they have conquered it by detailing several of our most prevalent forms of malaise, what have cultivation they got to offer as curative? Well, this is where their moralism begins to break down, for many of us at least, because what else would an Old Testament group be offering but Jehovah? Or, to slip across a few centuries into the Greek Scriptures, Jesus. Its not that theyre acting as sycophants for the virulent proliferation of hippie fundamentalist sects. Master of Reality conveys the impression that with the cloud of gloom hanging over their persona, and the "downer-rock" label, they felt obliged to carry their moralism into outright proselytism, suggested by "Lord of This World" and clinched in "After Forever," which follows a paean to the joys of cannabis (see, kids, we dont take those horrible
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