Opinion/Editorial
Here Comes the Sun…
John Lennon, of The Beatles fame, wrote a song this article is titled after. The lyrics seem apropos to the season, the time, and even this shortage:
“Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting. Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been clear. Here comes the sun…Here comes the sun…and I say, it’s all right…”
For America, and most of the world, the ‘winter of our discontent hasn’t necessarily been inclusive of the cold season. The plunge everyone in the world has taken, into the terribly confusing, misunderstanding, and misstated present has been a result of a nearly unbelievable confluence of a social descent into the results of a pandemic, a negative reaction to the rise of very advanced technical communications inventions, and the now terribly obvious results of how a very few humans can overwhelm, convince and then use their very narrow, stilted and self-serving powers to nearly enslave an entire population species.
The current Olympics are being held in China, and the news coming back makes this Olympics not only the most boring of all time but among the most oppressive and indicative of what living under the totalitarian rule is really like. The men and women entered in the events may not even speak to members of other teams or civilians. They may not use cell phones or computers. They may not say divisive, insulting, or any other remarks that might place a bad light on the country’s leadership. Yet, the news of this seems not to be news at all, instead accepted as the way things need to be in order to compete, to attend, to go along.
The media remains silent, while much is made of a trucker’s protest up in Canada. Russia threatens the world, another blown away totalitarian country where misery abounds and spreads like a nearly unfelt form of cancer, yet the threat is made to appear as if it is only against a geographically near neighbor so far from where the United States is that citizens of our country can’t find it on a world map.
John Lennon’s song wasn’t about the world. It was about a time, and the times were changing. What time is coming for the world we all live in today, with members of our own country unable or unwilling to see the freedoms that many have fought for and given their lives for are being frittered away because so much of the public is too dumb or too downright nasty to care about the value in living in such a culture. There are no bars on windows on home windows and doors in the USA, for the most part. Most people don’t lock their cars or homes in much of the country. Residents, citizens, and even visitors can say the worst things about the country’s leadership, even to the point of flying threatening and awful flags and putting similar signs in their yards, but no hordes of police or military, or even secret intelligence services come for them.
The United States has on singular quality of mixed, near humorous, effect that no other country on earth enjoys. It is overwhelmingly better thought of by citizens of other countries than it is thought of by its own citizens.
However, things are changing. “Here comes the sun”. The ice is slowly melting away, as the depth of winter begins to slowly give in to the easing warmth of the coming spring. The greatest unasked question of today is, will this warmth spread through the culture and allow it to see that the framers of the constitution wanted so badly to live in a better society so they created a governing document, called the United States Constitution while knowing full well that they’d never live to truly participate in what that instrument would cause to be built? Little darlings, I feel the ice is slowly melting. I say that we’re going to be all right.
Will you see what I see, what John Lennon saw, what you should want to see, and then come with a small part of us and make it all right?
