So...What Has Changed?

Here we are again. On the 6th anniversary of 9/11. A horrific day for sure in this country. I wonder though, what has changed since then. We are once again completely immersed in materialism and greed. Not that it took long to go back in that direction after our few months when we were reeking of "do-goodocity" was over. I don't pretend that either party has any answers for what is wrong, cause they don't. Nor do I ever pretend that what happened to us was justified by the extremists. The arrogance that they do speak of? It is indeed there. I fear that there will not be a done when we simply decide to live with less. Sure, some of us will and have. But the majority will continue to buy-in to whatever is being sold without thinking about the true cost to them and those around. Ignorance is indeed bliss.

"A people that values its privileges over its principles soon loses both"
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"With God On Our Side" - Bob Dylan

Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.

Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.

Oh the Spanish-AmericanWar
had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side.

Oh the First World War, boys
It closed out its fate
The reason for fighting
I never got straight
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.

When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.

I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.

But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.

In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.