Episode 10: Dear Donny
2024-12-10 4 min
Description & Show Notes
About the song
This is a fairly new tune. But not that new. I wrote it before Trump first got elexcted into office. To this day I dream about writing a play about Trump and Mike Pence, Jeff Sessions, ... in the White House and what types of conversations they are having behind closed doors. Maybe I should write it but with a more contemporary cast in mind: Elon Musk, RFK...
About the lyrics
This song is vaguely about my thoughts about this lunacy that is happening in U.S. politics. I wish people were more thoughtful and less hostile towards their political opponents. I wish there was more common ground. I think, the shared values are much closer than you would think but the combination of profit drivven social media bubbles and private news channels are fuel on the fire that burns civil political disagreements and meaningful, respectful debates. I hope one day people see through the noise and find a common ground to work on differences and find a common ground. But I guess the times are not ripe yet. I want to call for a more respectful, more tolerant and more humane society. Bottom line, we have to protect minorities of all kinds. We have to be empethatic. We have to feel with those who are in need and don't blame the weakest for any dissatisfactions we may encounter. That's just way to cheap. Away with all the noise. Away with all the hatred. I truly believed at one point that after the millenium we would face in a fresh direction. I thought that certain positions were so outdated that they would become obsolete. But now so many backwards oriented positions are resurfacing and even some truly horrific, racist and reactionary points of view seem to reemerge. I can only hope that one day those of us who long for a more just and more equal society will be in the majority and our history books will look back at those days we're living in now and say that equality and tolerance are so much better than the man who longs for [white, ethnic, sexual, wealth] superiority and power in his hands. Let's become independent from fossil fuels, let's share the planet in a peaceful and respectful way and let's give everyone the chance to be who they wish to be and live in peace and harmony.
This is a fairly new tune. But not that new. I wrote it before Trump first got elexcted into office. To this day I dream about writing a play about Trump and Mike Pence, Jeff Sessions, ... in the White House and what types of conversations they are having behind closed doors. Maybe I should write it but with a more contemporary cast in mind: Elon Musk, RFK...
About the lyrics
This song is vaguely about my thoughts about this lunacy that is happening in U.S. politics. I wish people were more thoughtful and less hostile towards their political opponents. I wish there was more common ground. I think, the shared values are much closer than you would think but the combination of profit drivven social media bubbles and private news channels are fuel on the fire that burns civil political disagreements and meaningful, respectful debates. I hope one day people see through the noise and find a common ground to work on differences and find a common ground. But I guess the times are not ripe yet. I want to call for a more respectful, more tolerant and more humane society. Bottom line, we have to protect minorities of all kinds. We have to be empethatic. We have to feel with those who are in need and don't blame the weakest for any dissatisfactions we may encounter. That's just way to cheap. Away with all the noise. Away with all the hatred. I truly believed at one point that after the millenium we would face in a fresh direction. I thought that certain positions were so outdated that they would become obsolete. But now so many backwards oriented positions are resurfacing and even some truly horrific, racist and reactionary points of view seem to reemerge. I can only hope that one day those of us who long for a more just and more equal society will be in the majority and our history books will look back at those days we're living in now and say that equality and tolerance are so much better than the man who longs for [white, ethnic, sexual, wealth] superiority and power in his hands. Let's become independent from fossil fuels, let's share the planet in a peaceful and respectful way and let's give everyone the chance to be who they wish to be and live in peace and harmony.
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