For What It's Worth

I keep listening to Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s Worth.

The cycle keeps going and the need for this kind of song returns, like swallows. The uprising in The United States is not completely from young people like in For What It’s Worth. The uprising is coming from people of all ages who need things to be extremely different. Sure, some are behind one Democratic candidate or the other—but it isn’t that much different.

Things will change in 2009. Sadly, another war can boomerang back at any moment.

Not to be cynical.

In my short life there have already been so many wars. I do hope, if nothing else, that we have some time off.

I love those years between wars. The times when people can go about their own journeys and they don’t have to spend any psychological energy being for or against “The War.”

The war can be any war. On drugs. For Oil. Against Gay Marriage. All that war.

If we turn away from the wars, the combatants can lay down their weapons. The protestors can lay down their keyboards. Citizens can individuate. Then, without the pressure of un-winnable, useless conflict, humans all around can become so much more interesting.