The Times they are a Changing (Reprise)

Over 50 years ago Bob Dylan wrote that famous song which rocked the establishment and rocked a generation into a sense of optimism and togetherness. JFK was president of the USA and there was a hope that something really was about to change. Now in a historical sense 50 years is no more than the blink of an eye in our human story and an utterly insignificant time since it all began in the big bang.                                Sometimes it seems as things have to go bad before the good appears, like for instance the world wars of the last century culminating in the atomic bombs, and now it appears, for example, as far right nationalism, the regrowth of racism, Brexit and the Wall. But in the collective of humanity there is a realization growing that we are all in this together, highlighted by the recent “Extinction Rebellion” which managed to make this point. The climate change debate is just the beginning of changing times when individual and collective reason and action rocks us into the world of being and appreciation of our time and place.

 

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