All good; I should’ve known better, E. Trying to communicate from a somewhat lyrical standpoint on a composer’s fansite makes Messy often oblique (& 3rd person), but I am in tune to your sentiments in this thread. Although I can hear Dan’s point too. I mean, who/what is America…really..in the whole big picture? Domination from the Big Chair & purposefully spoken from the beginning…while the people, those with an ethical & neighborly bent are decent mostly benevolent & accountable folk. BUT the market forces controlled media & whatever bigotry-infused mook machine is animated by the shyster hand of doom up their pale white asses (who knows if it’s a long-set-in-motion blitz by cloaken outside sources or just the same sons of property take-taker-taking as always) has many of our adult neighbors and far too many of our youth fueling what my now broken son calls red hell on the brink of ultimate black hell wherein nothing is as it seems and no one is not trying to best you on all accounts; my somehow could be broken somehow could be merely horribly evolved to meet the tides that be son called it like he sees it: Pot, Pussy, & the Power to control the moment is all the mainstream kid has on his cretin mind today. (Grimace.) ….I have two sons so I call this bullshit on the whole. BUT I know enough about both of them to know I need to pay attention to BOTH their points of view. Thanks for clarifying, E. I think a lot of people are still trying to do the right (left) thing. There are just so many among us who ..uh ..don't.