War Is Still Over, If You Want It

On this day, the 31st anniversary of the death of Beatle John Lennon, I am still given to thinking that we can fix things and make them work; that we can end poverty, we can end warfare, that we can afford to help the weakest and smallest among us, that we can play fair.

For quite awhile there has been a sense that our problems are intractable and that they are part of the fabric of our makeup as fallible creatures. So therefore we should not try to fix what 'aint broke.

The song "God Bless The Child" puts this idea well.

"Them that's got shall get. Them that's not shall lose."

If this isn't the theme behind much of what passes for our political discourse, I do not know what is.

The 1% says, "twas ever thus" and that justifies their behavior. The 99% decries the injustice and demands change from those in power.

All overlook their own power to make the world a better place for all.

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy."