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    The Future

     

    Chapter 16 of Love and War includes: Love the Ones You're With, New World Symphony, Imagine That, and Eternal Life.

    Love the Ones You're With

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    In the 60s and the 70s

    The economy was booming

    Guns and butter

    Better times were looming

     

    But not for everyone

     

    Sit-ins and marches

    Riots and rebellions too

    Trying to level the playing field

    Tired of not making do...

    New World Symphony

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    “I envision a world where water, electricity, food, and education would be for free in the next 25 years for everyone on this planet,” said Carlos Santana during an interview at the Latin Grammys.

     

    The need for the essentials of life to be made freely available is obvious: Three billion people now live in poverty, half of them subsisting on less than a dollar a day. Yet everything is being privatized: education, health care, the very cells which make up our bodies.

     

    The agent of privatization, the corporation, was once an organic part of our society. In 1949, U.S. corporations paid 49% of all taxes. They pay just 7% now...

    Imagine That

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    Capitol has just released remastered versions of John Lennon’s entire catalog, the best of which remains the Phil Spector-produced Imagine. The title track has become an integral part of the world’s cultural fabric--the centerpiece of a ghetto high school halftime show at a basketball game in New York or a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor (“Imagine Whirled Peace”). Artists ranging from Madonna to A Perfect Circle have covered it. All this is somewhat amazing, considering that the message of “Imagine” is among the most radical imaginable.  John Lennon described “Imagine” as “anti-capitalistic” but his message is more than that. The song, a top five hit, not only imagines a world without war or religion, but as a communal society in which money no longer exists...

    Eternal Life

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    I don’t wanna end up DOA

    Until I embed my DNA

    In the world around me

     

    I don’t wanna die like my father

    In a hospital bed for over a year

    With no idea what’s wrong

    His body filled up with water

    And like any drowning man...

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