I think I can still understand Bob Dylan's mood very well. I remember a sentence he said: "People just want me to behave as they want to behave." This sentence probably represents his life-long perseverance and resistance . He refused to be interviewed by the media, and his relationship with the media was like that of a prisoner and a police officer, and his words were mostly satire, which made the interviewer's face nowhere to be put on hold. He won an award in the pro-democracy movement, but when he took the stage at the awards dinner, he said something that completely embarrassed the audience, made everyone look at each other, and ended in embarrassment. But he can often make the onlookers laugh out loud. This is because it happens that he is telling the truth.
Whether it is a reporter in a suit or a number of relaxed and happy dinner sponsors, whether it is a businessman or a news practitioner trying to do an exclusive interview, these people are all full of personal interests. The eloquently proclaimed civil rights and plausible politics seem so comical and evasive. They never see reality at all. So Dylan's "I don't care about this" is not really meant to show that he really doesn't care, but precisely because he has so many seemingly "concerned" and very "concerned" people, and really doesn't want to be with them Just as "concerned". He was too lazy to explain himself to them, because people were just trying to explain him the way they wanted to.
To say that Dylan is a mysterious person is to say that he just wants to be a real person. Facing the expectations people have placed on him, facing the role that the group wants him to play, facing the new labels and potential performance needs that he has been put on, he is very struggling and sad. He knows how hard it is to focus on himself and not what people want him to be.... when he says "people just want me to behave as they want me to behave" I deeply felt his pain at that time.
No direction home means finding the way home, and Dylan happens to be such a homeless person. In the traditional sense, a person will look for his spiritual "father" and "mother" in his whole life. This "father" and "mother" are often directly related to his own parents, a part of them, or childhood memories. A certain scene in the book, or a happy picture of the source that you want to go back to all your life. Many people may have never left such a "father" and "mother" in their entire lives, living under some kind of spiritual reflection of them. However, Dylan denied his direction from the beginning. So his betrayal made him face homeless situations later. To put it another way, when people point to a stop and think "He is there.", he has actually betrayed that place, walked to the next corner, and said, "I'm not there." . There is no place where he can stay, because every place tries to tag and define him. So this betrayal has become a habit, but this feeling of homelessness can only be his own responsibility.
This is probably a tragedy. But, God knows you choose to be a lonely soul.
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