It's amazing how a society can change in 40 years. I am constantly reminded of it since I would blissfully have been a child of the sixties, when the 'Beatles' were writing lyrics like "imagine all the people living in peace" and the vocal repetition of "give peace a chance" which became a political activist chant to many in public and at home. When 'Air Supply' and 'The bee gees' pumped out hit after hit of love songs that meant something........A society who viewed marriage as a sacred thing on the right. .......and on the left the hippy children who acted as part of a drug crazed revolution BUT with responsibility and care to others.
I would happily have marched with flowers in my hair, breezy chiffon flowing as I danced with other passionate souls in protest and in the fields and my partner in love by my side as most did.
Today, 'Nickle Back' perpetrate in their lyrics having all the material possessions of rock stardom, video hits would not be viewed by mass 20 somethings' without 85% of it's graphic, gratuitous content and media would have no fuel without prima Donna's cavorting with each other as 'Madonna' and 'Britteny' did on stage in "that Pash", or if 'Paris Hilton' do it yourself porn was not OH SO ACCIDENTLY leaked. And lets not forget the scandals, celebrity love triangle and the big business of media corporations who daily feed us something we view as helpful THE NEWS!
We have a different war on our hands and it's much more complicated than the one the 'Beatles' retailed.
We are living a war of social propaganda, misguided beliefs, youngsters who feel depressed and hopeless, and a primary lack of moral structure............... and I haven't even started about climate change, environmental and economic collapse, unfair financial distribution among third
world countries, child mortality rates among infants in worldwide orphanages and lower socio-economic communities, WSPA's battle to free animals from illegal trade, mammoth global De-forestation, the extinction of billions of species as a result or the fight by many human rights's organisations for the justice and free liberty of all who are shackled, shamed, mutilated or maimed .
Honestly, the list is endless.
I am reminded of an incident in a supermarket complex recently when a young man stopped me to talk about what his organisation were doing for human rights etc , and when I shared my interest, appreciation and understanding I was then persuaded quite abhorrently to sign over my bank details in order to donate on a regular basis to this charity.
Now if I were uneducated in the politics of such things I would have fallen for the gorgeous big blue eyes who felt so much passion to do something to improve the world. And at the same time my explanation of 'activism is better done through a voice' would have met with a rhetorical cynicism......yet I saw myself in those eyes only a few years ago.
Knowledge is power and I am convinced that if we wield it well and appropriately, some things can be changed. For now attitudes need to change. The attitude of the generation that will inherit the earth is seriously jaded and it is perhaps the biggest battle front for now. It has occurred to me for some time that the gap between people who wish to do harm and those who wish good is widening...........past history can no longer be a predicting factor, it's now completely in our hands to create our own future. We have the brains, we have the means but do we have the desire before it's beyond repair?
It would be unfair of me to not leave you with some reference lyrics which inspire after this post so, in a meditative state I refer you on to AC DC's 'Back in black' and Iron Maiden's 'Number of the beast'
My sarcasm made this post, didn't it!
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