Candles versus lightbulbs

In watching the movie about Bob Dylan's move from folk into experimenting with other forms of music, a couple of lines in the script struck me quite forcibly (Mangold & Cocks, 2024). They arise when Bob Dylan is being confronted by Pete Seegar in the Viking Motel room full of musicians and other "movers and shakers" prior to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival towards the end of the movie…