From the mind of critic: “If all of us are drum majors for peace, justice, love and harmony, but also dance to the beat of a different drum, do we ever run into the problem of too many cooks in the kitchen? If we’re all corageously passionate about having our voices heard, do we drown other voices out because they’re different from ours, and impede our voice from being heard? Or do we allow other voices to be heard, specifically so they’ll allow out voice to be heard? Many times we fight and struggle so hard to be heard, that we forget other people are trying to do the same. We care so much about our rights and being treated fairly, that sometimes we see others fighting for their rights as our opponent. Sometimes we don’t see others fighting for their rights as seperate, but 2 areas of the same side of the same coin instead. Once we see human beings of all stripes always have and always will want to live free, we’ll see that fighting for our rights is a great thing, but when we see our fight as seperate from somebody elses fight, it takes away from ours. We all came together to stop the Vietnam war, and then we did. Then we started splintering off into seperate groups, to fight for our individual rights. Which womens rights, youth rights, gay rights and others deserve to be fought for, but we stopped seeing how they’re all interconnected. If we’re all drum majors for peace, love, justice and harmony we’ll see that fighting for rights, means fighting for ALL rights. Once we see how our collective success is symbiotic, we’ll see that we might dance to the beat of a different drum, but they’re in the same band” 🙂