Wrote this little piece in 2017, film is informative, and my feelings expressed in the print are still the same.
I have always maintained that we are all born anarchists, but the
society we grow up in bids us bury those feelings and desires somewhere
deep in our hearts. However we do carry them with us through out our
lives, they are there ready to sprout and grow if we can create the
right circumstances. These occasions rise in all parts of the world,
sometimes in small groups that grow and then some fade under pressure
from without. Other times it is a mass movement that can only be crushed
by the military might of an authoritarian regime. No matter what, we
should always remember deep in all our hearts there is a desire to live,
with each other, in peace, in caring, sharing communities.
I Want to Believe!
I want to believe
All that is good is out there
Sleeping in hearts that live in dark valleys,
About to blossom like some magic woodland,
In spite of war, in spite of greed
The essence that is humanity struggling to be free.
All around death arrives in many guises,
Silent as the frost poverty kills,
The ruthless march of war
With every drum beat seeks God’s blessing,
While the God fearing kill the God fearing,
Slaughter in the name of the greater good.
I want to believe
All that is good is out there
Sleeping in the hearts that live in dark valleys
About to blossom like some magic woodland,
Not just as the dream of poets.
