{"id":69136,"date":"2024-12-12T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=69136"},"modified":"2024-12-12T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T23:05:11","slug":"what-the-world-needs-now-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2024\/12\/12\/what-the-world-needs-now-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What the world needs now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u201cWhat the world needs now is another folk singer like I need a hole in my head,\u201d David Lowery sang<\/a>, 30-some years ago.<\/p>\n

\"\"If the point there is that a new folk singer is going to fix everything, or that a new folk singer might be, in itself, a sufficient solution to all the world\u2019s problems, then, yes, of course, that\u2019s silly.<\/p>\n

But these days folks need all the help they can get and, well, some new folk singers and new protest songs may not be everything<\/em> the world needs now, but they can\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not like we can look back at everything Woody Guthrie wrote and sang and say, \u201cHere\u2019s how that changed the world in direct and tangible ways.\u201d But I think we can still make a case that his songs helped. If those songs didn\u2019t \u201cchange the world,\u201d they maybe changed some people who went out and did.<\/p>\n

All of which is to say that I\u2019m very impressed with this timely and timeless composition from Jesse Welles<\/a>:<\/p>\n