july

Songs are a vehicle, much like poetry is a vehicle, to communicate complex ideas in a simple way to a lot of people at once. Songs are easy to sing (participate) but still convey the emotion; the frustration, the anger, the hope that things will get better over time, and the eventual overcoming

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

Look at all of the national anthems - they are all songs about victory and overcoming against tyranny of some sort: La Marseillaise, Star Spangled Banner, Hatikvah - and so many more - all about overcoming, and hope

Trevor Noah's latest special has an extended bit about the German national anthem. Hilarious, with more than a little TIL energy