Peace.

No. I know. There’s no peace. Where is the peace? Where is the love? It’s time to decide to locate these things. These essential things that are so essential…that living without them will cause the ultimate destruction of our entire universe. So where can I find this peace? Can I purchase some at the corner store? Can I find it at the bottom of a well somewhere? Or is it at the end of my rainbow.

Do I have a rainbow?

Somewhere…over the rainbow…blue birds fly…

Someday…my prince will come…

The sun’ll come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun…

A dream is a wish your heart makes…

Thanks to Walt’s musical crew for some of these phrases, we can never forget them. Are these false and pretentious ideals instilled into us as children? Or are they the “hope” that is meant to keep our eyes brightened by the promise of a wonderful future? What are they? Denial? It’s certain - absolutely certain - that children growing up in countries and cities ravaged by war, genocide, or adverse poverty are in no wise exposed to or adhere to any of these “ideals”. What they are exposed to is the harsh reality around them, and nothing else. So, why? Why generation after generation, are we exposing children living on polar opposite sides of the spectrum to both horrific realities in which they will grow up both not knowing any other reality and suffering the consequences of PTSD, and then a world of complete unreality and fakeness - creating delusional people with a false sense of superiority to the rest of the world and instilling into them unattainable ideals to which they cling and are disappointed when their sky-rocketing expectations are not met, like 50-year-olds sitting and sobbing on a high-chair? It is this imbalance and sense of extremity that is caused by apathy to worldwide problems, the effects of which are not limited to the areas that they affect directly, that is ripping the world apart and causing everything to crumble. And top it all off with the children living in harsh realities somehow imagining that America is the land of milk and honey (a false tale probably passed down from generation to generation) - and you get a world that is really screwed up. A world that is so screwed up all of its problems have no beginning and no end and is like a dog chasing its own tail.

Here are some songs that are talking about the world and its situation. That I like. (And maybe some others that are just pointing out things about the human condition not specific to any one person.)