bob dylan is 70, etc. i don't think there has ever been a more overrated figure in the arts, every assessment by greil marcus etc huger in its gaseous emptiness than the last. can a whole generation be a charlatan? it can, if it's the generation emblematized by bob dylan. the daily beast: 'All along the way, he wrote songs that would last forever. “Mr. Tambourine Man” was an eternal plea for the sublime.' maybe that's a joke or a parody? really, people in a consensus, especially one the actual occasion or content of which is so flimsy, just enter into a hyperbole contest to see who can develop the dullest, most mechanical, most overblown, most flatulent expression of the unanimous jive.