Creedence Clearwater Revival was one of my favorite "groups" back in the 70'sff and is still one of my groups today. Their songs tried to say something. In the midst of Vietnam protests, Black Power protests, Gay and Lesbian protests, etc. at the University of Wisconsin in Madison -- there was this song, "Who'll Stop the Rain...?" which summed up the emotions underneath the barrage of things going wrong on a world-wide basis.
Kind of like, well, kind of like ... now! Who'll stop the rain -- of crazed nihilist like ISIS, or Russian hyper-Nationalists in Ukraine, or portly tea partiers and science-deniers which populate a good deal of America? Who'll stop the ignorance that abounds about "extermination" level issues in the world: climate change, self-destruction through child/female abuse, and violence as the newest sports passion in the NFL? None of these issues are God's fault (if there is a god)! All of these issues are directly related to human arrogance (yes, I know I have plenty); human ignorance (ditto); human willfulness (again ditto); and human...humanness. We are all at fault.
We remain complacent -- while the idiots around us lead us. We try to stay uninvolved because "doing something" requires time and energy we just don't have. We have met and seen the enemies -- again and again -- and the enemy is ... us.
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