PEOPLE PLEASE LISTEN

[WilcoFan]

If you can't change the world, change yourself. And if you can't change yourself, then change the world.

 

-Matt Johnson, The The

[dannygutters]

You could come to the Woody Guthrie folk jam this weekend in chicago, or organize your own!

 

http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?sho...mp;#entry905048

 

"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work."

[W(TF)]

I've also come to realize you can change the world in small ways every day. Call your mom/dad. Talk to a neighbor. Give an old person your seat on the bus. Spend time with your kids, really listening to them...not preoccupied with other thoughts. Just try to be strong enough to get through the day without being afraid, or losing your temper.

 

I think our real sense of fulfilment comes from what we give. Yeah it's good to ponder societal change, but it can also be daunting, and increase manyfold our sense of futility and impotence.