Well, imagine what your "folk" music would be like without war, injustices, murder, disasters, etc. Songs about loving and families and songs about making music (metamusic?) will get old after a while. Look at modern country music, that's all they even sing about anymore. Dimly remembered artifacts of a distant past? All of history forgotten? Except the moments of happiness? Even McGrath's references of Beethoven and Woodstock and The Beatles and Shakespeare are not all happy little stories. If my life is affected by a war, and another's is totally affected by love alone, does their story take a greater importance than mind? Our lives would be a pretty dull place without our history. As for the utopian society of love....I sincerely doubt that will ever happen. And if it does, we will end up as little pink happiness-loving imbeciles who get eaten by Morlocks.