So you’re the chief censor for the Chinese Communists, looking at the Rolling Stones’ set list for the forthcoming tour (drawn from their “40 Licks” hits collection) and deciding which songs Mick and Keith can or can’t play. Do you —
(1) Ban the incendiary “Street Fighting Man” and the nihilistic “Sympathy For the Devil,” songs with genuinely subversive and violent messages?
or:
(2) Ban “Brown Sugar,” “Honky Tonk Women,” “Beast of Burden” and “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” because they’re somehow lascivious (though lord knows why they are considered more objectionable than other Stones hits like “Under My Thumb”)?
China chose door number two. I guess trying to fathom how the censor’s mind works is a hopeless undertaking.
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