25 April, 2014

Walk Tall


I feel the music video missed an opportunity to be great by indulging in completely predictable imaging.  It would have been ground-breaking and marvelous in 1978, too bad it was filmed in 2004.  It undermines the message to "walk tall" when the examples are banal.  There is no courage in preaching to the choir.

Still, I enjoy the song and it requires very little imagination to give it a stoic reading; there is no good but virtue and no evil but vice, therefore "walk tall" or in a previous century's jargon, "be virtuous." 

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