I have this piled up list of songs I want to play you, and good movies to watch.
But this one is the one I choose for you first among them all.
Some of the lyrics to it go:
Ring the bells that still can ring
forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
that’s how the light gets in.
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Oh. One more thing.
There’s a comment down in the comment section that notes:
“… really conveyed the sadness about (what is) happening in the so-called civilized countries”
That is, in one sense, a ludicrously tiny piece of the truth of this piece.
In another sense, it is precisely the most Noble and Uncivilized Truth of it.
You say to me, you fool, anarchy inevitably means a descent into violence.
And I remind you tactfully that the very definition of a governing State is that which seeks to enforce a total monopoly on violence.