“He blew his brains out, in the car -
He hadn’t noticed the lights had changed...”
(My attempt at quoting Beatles, from memory)
...for me, this evokes the image of someone committing suicide, even though the stressors in their life are no longer present. Considering it’s on Sgt. Pepper’s, in the late 60’s, the stressors could be eluding to the changing national politics of the time...
But, then, this could entirely be my attempt to create my angle on the story unfolding in the song. (Where we also have “woke up! Got out of bed. Dragged a comb across my head...” and the images of rushing to get ready and get to a job... [so no need to assume the lights are such grandiose issues like civil rights and the war movement...could be just a mental snapping at sitting in traffic too long]
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Yes, our elections of late may not have as dramatic of results as those on the polar ends would like; but they also have been swinging back and forth, as different marginalized segments exert their power to vote. Unfortunately, politics is rarely fast and rarely dramatic, when it is working sanely. I wonder, though, if we can still claim sanity for our current politics...
Then again, I could be just giving voice to the analysis claiming that our politics are becoming more and more polarized, leading to the alienation of the centrists.
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Not entirely sure what’s prompting this writing. I guess a feeling that anger and outrage, even if it’s believed to be justified, does not lead to good changes and solutions, and that governments move better by millimeters than by miles (because we don’t know what happens when millions are left in the dust)
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Not sure if that makes sense... still drafting this, as I write...
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