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Taken from Media Education Foundation (Feb, 2002)

Are you optimistic about the future?


I am an eternal optimist. I believe that goodness is always going to be one step ahead of evil. The reason I believe is because people will always choose goodness-you give someone the option of good and bad, and they're always going to choose good. I don't think anyone starts off in their life thinking, "I want to be a bad person." Everyone wants to be good, but a lot of times the distinction is unclear and we're told messages that if you do this, you're following the good guys; if you do that, you're following the bad guys. That's why I think it's just a matter of time before people can communicate more clearly about what is happening in the world and about justice on a mass scale, on a world scale. But I don't engage in something that I feel that I can't complete. I don't want to start something that I can't finish, so I'm not going to start into this thinking that it's futile.


I'm only going to join this movement for peace if I feel like it's realistic, and I also think that each of us has a responsibility to the seven generations of people that came before us and the seven generations to come to make this world a better place and to make this world the best place it could possibly be. And so I feel a responsibility to my ancestors and to my children and grandchildren to be engaged in this. At the same time, I also feel like it's important for us to maintain a balance, a synchronicity, so that we don't quit. And the music is part of that-synchronicity, to be able to have fun, to give voice to our emotions, to let our feelings out in a safe way, and to commune with other people, and to experience joy, to experience our connection to when the human intersects with the divine, those moments when we cry in joy and those moments when we laugh in joy. And so I'm very optimistic for
the future, but I hope the future gets here quick.

 
 

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