It's What It Is
Spent Friday in the car - Syracuse and back - it was a perfect time for the I-pod.
One of the things that occurred to me is that I very rarely listen to full records anymore, as the artist intended, so I took the I-pod off shuffle and listened to the full records, in order.
Some of the great records of the 70's and 80's...bad songs and all.
One of the records I played was Bob Dylan's Slow Train Coming and on that record is a song called Change Your Way of Thinking.
A Bob song in the nasally whine mode talking about the times and how messed up they were.
Healthcare, back-stabbing political parties, gunning each other down in the streets, not incorporating God into our lives, cheating our neighbors, the dirty wind blowing.
In other words, Zimmy could've written the song yesterday.
Which got me thinking:
It is what it is.
People will always cry about the role of government as they shovel free hot food down, or take advantage of tremendous tax loopholes.
We will all bemoan the costs of healthcare right up until that moment when we don't care about how much it costs as long as it keeps us alive for another day.
Red versus Blue will always be a battle of incompetent versus incompetent, and while there have been days and days or arguing points with other people who haven't accepted what it is as what it is, it won't ever change.
It won't change.
It won't ever be perceived as being better.
People will hate the sitting president as much as they hate the starting quarterback.
'Who's up next?' will always be the rallying cry.
'We're in a real mess,' will be shouted from the mountaintops here in the USA.
We Gotta' Change Our Way of Thinking...Bob sang.
Well, guess what? We didn't.
And the fact that we argue out the points and get so freaking mad about a particular issue is great.
Passion is always wonderful.
But it won't likely change.
The issue that still makes my blood boil, more than anything else, are the gun laws, of course. I still don't know why you can't qualify to own a weapon that will devastate if you have a finger twitch, but what the hell do I know?
It is what it is.
And it won't change.
When Washington was taking his vow as the first president there were people in the wings bemoaning the fact that:
"We're really screwed here! He's gonna' be the worst president in history."
And perhaps Dylan was onto something:
We do have to change our way of thinking:
Instead of bitching about it we have to accept the things that don't seem to be open to change.
That thought right there is certainly liberating.
One of the things that occurred to me is that I very rarely listen to full records anymore, as the artist intended, so I took the I-pod off shuffle and listened to the full records, in order.
Some of the great records of the 70's and 80's...bad songs and all.
One of the records I played was Bob Dylan's Slow Train Coming and on that record is a song called Change Your Way of Thinking.
A Bob song in the nasally whine mode talking about the times and how messed up they were.
Healthcare, back-stabbing political parties, gunning each other down in the streets, not incorporating God into our lives, cheating our neighbors, the dirty wind blowing.
In other words, Zimmy could've written the song yesterday.
Which got me thinking:
It is what it is.
People will always cry about the role of government as they shovel free hot food down, or take advantage of tremendous tax loopholes.
We will all bemoan the costs of healthcare right up until that moment when we don't care about how much it costs as long as it keeps us alive for another day.
Red versus Blue will always be a battle of incompetent versus incompetent, and while there have been days and days or arguing points with other people who haven't accepted what it is as what it is, it won't ever change.
It won't change.
It won't ever be perceived as being better.
People will hate the sitting president as much as they hate the starting quarterback.
'Who's up next?' will always be the rallying cry.
'We're in a real mess,' will be shouted from the mountaintops here in the USA.
We Gotta' Change Our Way of Thinking...Bob sang.
Well, guess what? We didn't.
And the fact that we argue out the points and get so freaking mad about a particular issue is great.
Passion is always wonderful.
But it won't likely change.
The issue that still makes my blood boil, more than anything else, are the gun laws, of course. I still don't know why you can't qualify to own a weapon that will devastate if you have a finger twitch, but what the hell do I know?
It is what it is.
And it won't change.
When Washington was taking his vow as the first president there were people in the wings bemoaning the fact that:
"We're really screwed here! He's gonna' be the worst president in history."
And perhaps Dylan was onto something:
We do have to change our way of thinking:
Instead of bitching about it we have to accept the things that don't seem to be open to change.
That thought right there is certainly liberating.
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