It is all biological.

It may seem obvious but it gets missed in the religious repeatition of the truth, be it Mohammad the one true prophet or Jesus Christ who eventually failed in court. Yet many are content to grope the dry bones of the past.

Humanity as a whole has a compound eye to look at issues and phenomena. Journalism used to be the lens for public sentiment to be focused. The founding fathers recognized this. One of their own was Benjamin Franklin who was a yellow journalist. Now we have a wealthy demographic media that is fed stories direct from Central Command.

It seems our compound eye has a rather large blind spot.
As a result the big lie and the ugly truth are blurred on every high definition screen in America.

Fixing the vote count aside, running for office was a bit like the battle to be the alpha male. However once the victor is decided, the role of the battling male king is then to become just and protect the weaker members so that others may someday have their moment in the sun.

As humans we have the capacity to imagine and articulate justice.
When the victor "king" ignores the duty of justice and fails to protect all except the closest members of the ruling/waring council, revolution begins to forment.

The folk song is the educational glue of all such revolutions.

These lessons are not lost to rulers and war makers be they fundamentalist Islamic laws that condemn all folk singing under penalty of law or a right wing corporation like Clear Channel that will attempt to destroy any songs or song makers that voice even the slightest dissent.

We are here. Our duty is clear. The distractions are many and the rewards are few. The truth seen through the uncorrupted compound eye of our singers and artists is still an incredibly powerful tool to teach others how to think and not what to think.

How you wish to do it is your choice. I believe one of the greatest folk singers of our time made a career by making fun of folk singers...

"We are the Folk Song Army
every one of us cares
we are all against war and injustice
unlike the rest of those squares"
Tom Learher.

It goes to show how some of my best new songs might even be forged from the PMs I got from some of the wonderful Christians who claim that they don't believe we are all tramps and crack addicts.