As I drove home late last night (actually early this morning), there was some annoying advertisement on KUFX, so I switched to KFOG. KFOG plays some stuff I like, but they play an excess of new “whiny rock”. I caught the second half of a song I hadn’t heard before, John Mayer’s “Waiting on the World to Change”:
it’s not that we don’t care,
we just know that the fight ain’t fair
so we keep on waiting
waiting on the world to change
This reminded me of the old Ten Years After song I used to like, “I’d like to Change the World”:
I’d love to change the world
But I don’t know what to do
So I’ll leave it up to you
Once I actually paid attention to the lyrics, I started finding the song annoying. I can’t claim to have any of the answers to the world’s problems, but shrugging one’s shoulders and leaving it up to someone else is pretty unlikely to have the desired effect.
This is like that old saying “the world was never improved by the complacent”. If you sit around on your ass doing nothing, then you’ve got no reason to bitch — if you see something you don’t like, then do something about it.